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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?
(a) Because he would only get into a car with other Indians he knew.
(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 Hector had his own car.

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

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

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

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

9. Who sang an old mourning song by the graveside after Hector's casket was buried?
(a) The tribal elder.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The whole group of mourners.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Due to the violence to which Hector was born into, the narrator says it was inevitable Hector would become what?

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

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

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

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