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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 reckless driver.
(d) A close family member of Hector's.

13. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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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