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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?
(a) Because white men would not try to pick up an Indian.
(b) Because Hector had his own car.
(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.

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

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

12. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story as he stands in the cemetery?
(a) Find out who killed Hector.
(b) Live longer than every other Indian in the world.
(c) Take care of his mother.
(d) Bury the memory of Hector for good.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think Hector may have done which got him killed?

2. How old was Hector's grandmother when she moved to the newly formed Coeur d'Alene reservation?

3. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?

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

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