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

2. How many of the narrator's cousins are in prison?
(a) 12.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 9.

3. What does the narrator think Hector may have done which got him killed?
(a) Owed money to a drug dealer.
(b) Insulted someone or admitted he had an affair with someone's girlfriend or wife.
(c) Had an affair with a white woman.
(d) Harassed a white man or group of white men.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does the narrator live?

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

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

4. How does the narrator say Indian's view their worst losses and greatest beauty?

5. What information was carved into Hector's wooden grave marker?

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