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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say Indian's view their worst losses and greatest beauty?
(a) As a waste of time.
(b) As equally painful.
(c) As sacred and necessary.
(d) As par for the course.

2. What does the narrator admit Hector was most of the time?
(a) A good-for-nothing liar.
(b) A regular jerk.
(c) A curmudgeonly prick.
(d) A temperamental asshole.

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

4. How old was the narrator when Hector disappeared?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 16.
(d) 31.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did each mourner do after the coffin was lowered into the ground?

3. How does the narrator feel Hector died?

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

5. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story as he stands in the cemetery?

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