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

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

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

4. What does the narrator say to his mother when she notes that they do not have Hector's body?
(a) You don't need a body to bury a man.
(b) Then Hector must still be alive.
(c) They discovered his body the day before.
(d) They can bury the memory of him.

5. What does the narrator say was the best part of Hector's funeral?
(a) Hector returned.
(b) They had an open and empty casket.
(c) His mother's cooking.
(d) His mother's singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old would Hector be in the present if he were still alive?

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

3. How does the narrator feel Hector died?

4. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?

5. Who holds Hector in the photograph the narrator has of him?

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