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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 violent man who died violently.
(b) An angry man who left everyone.
(c) A gentle man who strove for peace.
(d) A joyful man who loved everybody.

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) He is the son he always wanted.
(c) Take care of your mother.
(d) You are a fine young man.

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

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

5. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story as he stands in the cemetery?
(a) Take care of his mother.
(b) Find out who killed Hector.
(c) Bury the memory of Hector for good.
(d) Live longer than every other Indian in the world.

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

7. At Hector's grave, the narrator wonders if it is possible for an Indian to die in what way?
(a) Quietly.
(b) Effortlessly.
(c) Alone.
(d) Peacefully.

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

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

10. Which South Dakota battle does the narrator say the U.S. Army massacred hundreds of unarmed people?
(a) Fallen Timbers.
(b) Little Bighorn.
(c) Wounded Knee.
(d) Rosebud.

11. Who does the narrator imagine is buried in Hector's empty coffin?
(a) Hector's killers.
(b) His aunts, uncles and cousins.
(c) Himself.
(d) The entire tribe.

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

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

14. 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) Buried their hate.
(b) Felt guilty.
(c) Sung him an honor song.
(d) Cried.

15. How old was Hector's grandmother when she moved to the newly formed Coeur d'Alene reservation?
(a) In her teens.
(b) 7 or 8.
(c) In her 30s.
(d) In her 20s.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?

2. During what battle in Montana was Custer killed?

3. Who holds Hector in the photograph the narrator has of him?

4. Who does the narrator say he knows is buried in Hector's empty coffin?

5. How many children did Hector's grandmother have?

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