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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 - 2 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say happens to violent men?
(a) They die violently.
(b) They go to jail.
(c) The calm down eventually.
(d) They endlessly hurt people.

2. What did the narrator's cousin tell him they could do if they were royalty?
(a) Live in a castle.
(b) Wear fancy clothes.
(c) Have a dozen babies.
(d) Have a dozen maids.

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

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

5. What does the narrator say was the best part of Hector's funeral?
(a) They had an open and empty casket.
(b) His mother's singing.
(c) Hector returned.
(d) His mother's cooking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the narrator's cousin live in poverty on the reservation?

2. What Indian tribe do the narrator and his family belong?

3. What does the narrator say to his mother when she notes that they do not have Hector's body?

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

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

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