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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old would Hector be in the present if he were still alive?
(a) 45.
(b) 58.
(c) 63.
(d) 72.

4. How long ago did the narrator's father die?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 41 years.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 6 months.

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

6. How does the narrator feel Hector died?
(a) Car wreck.
(b) Murder.
(c) Drug overdose.
(d) Suicide.

7. What relation to the narrator is Hector?
(a) His father.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His brother.
(d) His cousin.

8. When Hector left the last time, how was he to get to his destination?
(a) His own car.
(b) The narrator's mother drove him.
(c) Hitchhiking.
(d) A friend was driving him.

9. How old was the narrator when Hector disappeared?
(a) 16.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 31.

10. How long did the mourners stay awake during Hectors wake?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 8 days.
(d) 2 days.

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

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

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

14. With whom does the narrator live?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) His cousin.
(d) He lives alone.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator say Indian's view their worst losses and greatest beauty?

4. Who is the only person the narrator kissed?

5. Who attended Hector's wake?

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