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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which South Dakota battle does the narrator say the U.S. Army massacred hundreds of unarmed people?
(a) Rosebud.
(b) Wounded Knee.
(c) Little Bighorn.
(d) Fallen Timbers.

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

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

4. 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) Come up with some nonsense reason the empty coffin was buried.
(c) Find the empty coffin and wonder what it all means.
(d) Put the empty coffin in a museum.

5. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?
(a) Turn himself in.
(b) Pray for forgiveness.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Send him a letter telling him where his body was buried.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does the narrator live?

2. Who is the only person the narrator kissed?

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

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

5. What does the narrator admit Hector was most of the time?

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