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

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

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

4. 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 violent man who died violently.
(c) A joyful man who loved everybody.
(d) A gentle man who strove for peace.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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 20s.
(b) In her 30s.
(c) In her teens.
(d) 7 or 8.

13. 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) Put the empty coffin in a museum.
(c) Find the empty coffin and wonder what it all means.
(d) Try to find out who buried and empty coffin.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?

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

3. Who does the narrator imagine is buried in Hector's empty coffin?

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

5. During what battle in Montana was Custer killed?

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