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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Briggs informed of when he calls for information?
(a) There is a massacre.
(b) A massive rescue operation is under way.
(c) There is a storm.
(d) There is a flood.

2. Who is washed away with the water?
(a) Beiyoodzin.
(b) Smithback.
(c) Aragon.
(d) Nora.

3. After Nora runs from Sloane and the threat of her gun, what does Sloane wonder?
(a) How much time she had left.
(b) Where Swire and Bonarotti were.
(c) Where Nora would go.
(d) What she should do.

4. Who is charged with moving Holroyd's body?
(a) Black and Swire.
(b) Smithback and Aragon.
(c) Swire and Smithback
(d) Enrique and Aaron.

5. Who realizes the water is coming into the slot canyon first?
(a) Black.
(b) Beiyoodzin.
(c) Nora.
(d) Smithback.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saves Nora and Bill?

2. What phrase repeats itself over and over in Black's mind?

3. What is the sun disk made of?

4. Who does Sloane shoot?

5. What does Enrique believe may have killed Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Black think of Sloane's behavior as the flood waters rage?

2. How do Nora and Bill get out of the slot canyon after regaining consciousness?

3. Why is Swire angry when Nora and Bill return to Quivira?

4. What had Sloane's father surmised regarding the few small shards of black on yellow micaceous pottery he had been able to study?

5. How does the rescue effort manifest itself at the marina in Page?

6. Who does Skip go to for help and why?

7. How does Black justify his omission when the flash flood comes?

8. Sloane and Nora clash yet again. Why this time, and what is the outcome?

9. How do Smithback and Nora escape?

10. What two things do the skinwalkers do when they go into Chilbah valley in Chapter 36?

(see the answer keys)

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