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

2. How many people has the narrator kissed?
(a) 5.
(b) 14.
(c) 30.
(d) 1.

3. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?
(a) Because he would only get into a car with other Indians he knew.
(b) Because there were no white people living near the reservation.
(c) Because white men would not try to pick up an Indian.
(d) Because Hector had his own car.

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

5. Who holds Hector in the photograph the narrator has of him?
(a) HIs mother, Alice.
(b) His aunt, Agitha.
(c) His grandmother, Agnes.
(d) His sister, Abbeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that Hector's grandmother's children were the first generation to do what?

2. What war does the narrator say Hector's grandmother was born before?

3. What does the narrator's mother says you will find inside an Indian self-help book?

4. Who sang an old mourning song by the graveside after Hector's casket was buried?

5. What were the causes of death for the narrator's aunts and uncles?

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