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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) Find out who killed Hector.
(b) Live longer than every other Indian in the world.
(c) Bury the memory of Hector for good.
(d) Take care of his mother.

2. What Indian tribe do the narrator and his family belong?
(a) Sioux.
(b) Lakota.
(c) Coeur d'Alene.
(d) Kootenai.

3. Where was Hector's coffin taken after the funeral?
(a) The Catholic cemetery.
(b) The backyard where the narrator's father was buried.
(c) It was returned because it was empty.
(d) The Indian burial ground.

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

5. What does the narrator's mother says you will find inside an Indian self-help book?
(a) Healing recipes.
(b) Pictures of other self-help books.
(c) Nothing useful.
(d) Wisdom for the ages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say happens to violent men?

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

3. Which South Dakota battle does the narrator say the U.S. Army massacred hundreds of unarmed people?

4. How many of the narrator's cousins are in prison?

5. What did one mourner say white archeologists would do 100 years from now after Hector's grave was buried?

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