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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 plan to do at the end of the story as he stands in the cemetery?
(a) Live longer than every other Indian in the world.
(b) Take care of his mother.
(c) Find out who killed Hector.
(d) Bury the memory of Hector for good.

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

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

4. How old would Hector be in the present if he were still alive?
(a) 45.
(b) 63.
(c) 58.
(d) 72.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the violence to which Hector was born into, the narrator says it was inevitable Hector would become what?

2. How old was Hector's grandmother when she moved to the newly formed Coeur d'Alene reservation?

3. What killed the narrator's father?

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

5. During what battle in Montana was Custer killed?

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