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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What did one mourner say white archeologists would do 100 years from now after Hector's grave was buried?

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

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