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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 3 - 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say to his mother when she notes that they do not have Hector's body?
(a) You don't need a body to bury a man.
(b) They can bury the memory of him.
(c) They discovered his body the day before.
(d) Then Hector must still be alive.

2. When Hector left the last time, how was he to get to his destination?
(a) The narrator's mother drove him.
(b) His own car.
(c) A friend was driving him.
(d) Hitchhiking.

3. What killed the narrator's father?
(a) A car crash.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A neighbor.

4. 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) Try to find out who buried and empty coffin.
(d) Come up with some nonsense reason the empty coffin was buried.

5. What is the narrator sure Hector would have done if he were still alive?
(a) Come back or called or written.
(b) Traveled the world.
(c) Sent them money.
(d) Gotten married.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that Hector's grandmother's children were the first generation to do what?

2. How many of the narrator's cousins are in prison?

3. Where does the narrator's one surviving uncle live?

4. How long ago did the narrator's father die?

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

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