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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During what battle in Montana was Custer killed?
(a) Fallen Timbers.
(b) Little Bighorn.
(c) Rosebud.
(d) Wounded Knee.

3. What did one mourner say white archeologists would do 100 years from now after Hector's grave was buried?
(a) Find the empty coffin and wonder what it all means.
(b) Come up with some nonsense reason the empty coffin was buried.
(c) Try to find out who buried and empty coffin.
(d) Put the empty coffin in a museum.

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

5. Who does the narrator imagine is buried in Hector's empty coffin?
(a) Himself.
(b) The entire tribe.
(c) Hector's killers.
(d) His aunts, uncles and cousins.

6. What information was carved into Hector's wooden grave marker?
(a) His name and a quote from a mourning song.
(b) His name, date of birth, and date of disappearance.
(c) His name and date of burial.
(d) HIs name only.

7. The narrator says that Hector's grandmother's children were the first generation to do what?
(a) Move from the reservation.
(b) Go to war.
(c) Live in a house with four walls.
(d) Go to college.

8. What war does the narrator say Hector's grandmother was born before?
(a) World War II.
(b) The American Indian War.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

9. Who does the narrator say likely killed Hector by accident?
(a) A close family member of Hector's.
(b) A reckless driver.
(c) Another Coeur d'Alene Indian.
(d) One of Hector's ex-girlfriends.

10. How old was Hector's grandmother when she moved to the newly formed Coeur d'Alene reservation?
(a) In her 30s.
(b) In her teens.
(c) In her 20s.
(d) 7 or 8.

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

12. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?
(a) Pray for forgiveness.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Send him a letter telling him where his body was buried.
(d) Turn himself in.

13. At Hector's grave, the narrator wonders if it is possible for an Indian to die in what way?
(a) Alone.
(b) Effortlessly.
(c) Peacefully.
(d) Quietly.

14. Due to the violence to which Hector was born into, the narrator says it was inevitable Hector would become what?
(a) An angry man who left everyone.
(b) A gentle man who strove for peace.
(c) A violent man who died violently.
(d) A joyful man who loved everybody.

15. What is the best thing the narrator recalls his father saying to him?
(a) Take care of your mother.
(b) You are a fine young man.
(c) All of his kids were accidents, but he was his best accident.
(d) He is the son he always wanted.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Hector's grandmother have?

2. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope the Indians who killed Hector did as they "buried his body deep in the woods" (3)?

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

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

5. Who does the narrator say he knows is buried in Hector's empty coffin?

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