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

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

2. Who holds Hector in the photograph the narrator has of him?
(a) His sister, Abbeth.
(b) His aunt, Agitha.
(c) His grandmother, Agnes.
(d) HIs mother, Alice.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Which South Dakota battle does the narrator say the U.S. Army massacred hundreds of unarmed people?
(a) Little Bighorn.
(b) Fallen Timbers.
(c) Rosebud.
(d) Wounded Knee.

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. How many children did Hector's grandmother have?
(a) 11.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 1.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sang an old mourning song by the graveside after Hector's casket was buried?

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

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

4. Who does the narrator say likely killed Hector by accident?

5. The narrator says that Hector's grandmother's children were the first generation to do what?

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