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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Due to the violence to which Hector was born into, the narrator says it was inevitable Hector would become what?
(a) A joyful man who loved everybody.
(b) A violent man who died violently.
(c) A gentle man who strove for peace.
(d) An angry man who left everyone.

2. What is the best thing the narrator recalls his father saying to him?
(a) All of his kids were accidents, but he was his best accident.
(b) Take care of your mother.
(c) He is the son he always wanted.
(d) You are a fine young man.

3. What did one mourner say white archeologists would do 100 years from now after Hector's grave was buried?
(a) Put the empty coffin in a museum.
(b) Find the empty coffin and wonder what it all means.
(c) Come up with some nonsense reason the empty coffin was buried.
(d) Try to find out who buried and empty coffin.

4. The narrator says that Hector's grandmother's children were the first generation to do what?
(a) Go to college.
(b) Live in a house with four walls.
(c) Move from the reservation.
(d) Go to war.

5. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?
(a) Send him a letter telling him where his body was buried.
(b) Turn himself in.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Pray for forgiveness.

6. During what battle in Montana was Custer killed?
(a) Fallen Timbers.
(b) Little Bighorn.
(c) Wounded Knee.
(d) Rosebud.

7. How many children did Hector's grandmother have?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 1.
(d) 11.

8. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope the Indians who killed Hector did as they "buried his body deep in the woods" (3)?
(a) Felt guilty.
(b) Cried.
(c) Buried their hate.
(d) Sung him an honor song.

9. What does the narrator think Hector may have done which got him killed?
(a) Had an affair with a white woman.
(b) Insulted someone or admitted he had an affair with someone's girlfriend or wife.
(c) Harassed a white man or group of white men.
(d) Owed money to a drug dealer.

10. What war does the narrator say Hector's grandmother was born before?
(a) The American Indian War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Revolutionary War.
(d) World War II.

11. Who does the narrator say he knows is buried in Hector's empty coffin?
(a) His entire tribe.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His great-grandmother.

12. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?
(a) Because he would only get into a car with other Indians he knew.
(b) Because there were no white people living near the reservation.
(c) Because Hector had his own car.
(d) Because white men would not try to pick up an Indian.

13. Who does the narrator say likely killed Hector by accident?
(a) A close family member of Hector's.
(b) A reckless driver.
(c) One of Hector's ex-girlfriends.
(d) Another Coeur d'Alene Indian.

14. Who sang an old mourning song by the graveside after Hector's casket was buried?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The whole group of mourners.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The tribal elder.

15. Who holds Hector in the photograph the narrator has of him?
(a) His grandmother, Agnes.
(b) HIs mother, Alice.
(c) His sister, Abbeth.
(d) His aunt, Agitha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story as he stands in the cemetery?

2. What information was carved into Hector's wooden grave marker?

3. How old was Hector's grandmother when she moved to the newly formed Coeur d'Alene reservation?

4. At Hector's grave, the narrator wonders if it is possible for an Indian to die in what way?

5. Who does the narrator imagine is buried in Hector's empty coffin?

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