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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was the narrator when he had his first kiss?
(a) 9.
(b) 41.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

3. Where was Hector's coffin taken after the funeral?
(a) It was returned because it was empty.
(b) The Indian burial ground.
(c) The backyard where the narrator's father was buried.
(d) The Catholic cemetery.

4. What were the causes of death for the narrator's aunts and uncles?
(a) Suicides and kidney failure.
(b) Plane crashes and stroke.
(c) War fatalities and homicide.
(d) Cancer, heart disease and car wrecks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did the mourners stay awake during Hectors wake?

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

3. What did the narrator's cousin tell him they could do if they were royalty?

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

5. What issue does the narrator say Hector suffered from at the time of his disappearance?

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