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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 did each mourner do after the coffin was lowered into the ground?
(a) Cry.
(b) Bow and leave.
(c) Throw dirt on it.
(d) Sing a mourning song.

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

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

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

5. Where did Hector say he was headed when he left 41 years ago?
(a) Coeur D'Alene Reservation.
(b) Spokane.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) He did not say.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What joke was made at Hector's funeral?

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

4. Who attended Hector's wake?

5. During what battle in Montana was Custer killed?

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