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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 say happens to violent men?
(a) They endlessly hurt people.
(b) They go to jail.
(c) The calm down eventually.
(d) They die violently.

2. Who attended Hector's wake?
(a) Nobody.
(b) The narrator's mother and cousin and uncle.
(c) Only the narrator and his mother.
(d) Most of the tribe.

3. What joke was made at Hector's funeral?
(a) Hector was so full of himself he was probably watching them to hear what everyone said about him.
(b) Hector was such a showoff they were surprised he did not come back to sing before a crowd.
(c) Hector was such a showoff they were surprised he did not return from the dead to lie in his coffin and die again.
(d) Hector loved to drink so much they were surprised he did not come back for the free wine.

4. Who does the narrator say he knows is buried in Hector's empty coffin?
(a) His entire tribe.
(b) His father.
(c) His great-grandmother.
(d) His mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator's cousin tell him they could do if they were royalty?

2. How many of the narrator's cousin live in poverty on the reservation?

3. What relation to the narrator is Hector?

4. What did each mourner do after the coffin was lowered into the ground?

5. At Hector's grave, the narrator wonders if it is possible for an Indian to die in what way?

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