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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's mother says you will find inside an Indian self-help book?
(a) Healing recipes.
(b) Wisdom for the ages.
(c) Pictures of other self-help books.
(d) Nothing useful.

2. How long ago did the narrator's father die?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 41 years.

3. Where does the narrator's one surviving uncle live?
(a) Spokane.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Seattle.

4. How does the narrator feel Hector died?
(a) Car wreck.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Drug overdose.
(d) Murder.

5. Who attended Hector's wake?
(a) Most of the tribe.
(b) The narrator's mother and cousin and uncle.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Only the narrator and his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best thing the narrator recalls his father saying to him?

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

3. What relation to the narrator is Hector?

4. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?

5. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope the Indians who killed Hector did as they "buried his body deep in the woods" (3)?

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