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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What issue does the narrator say Hector suffered from at the time of his disappearance?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Obesity.
(d) Depression.

2. What sad thing was said at Hector's funeral in regards to his lack of fear of the white man?
(a) The white man led him to a life of drinking and fighting.
(b) The white man was not afraid of him either.
(c) The white man did not even know he lived let alone died.
(d) The white man probably disappeared him.

3. How old would Hector be in the present if he were still alive?
(a) 63.
(b) 72.
(c) 45.
(d) 58.

4. How old was the narrator when Hector disappeared?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 31.
(d) 16.

5. How old was the narrator when he had his first kiss?
(a) 9.
(b) 18.
(c) 41.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did each mourner do after the coffin was lowered into the ground?

2. Where was Hector's coffin taken after the funeral?

3. Where does the narrator's one surviving uncle live?

4. What joke was made at Hector's funeral?

5. When Hector left the last time, how was he to get to his destination?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say was the best part of the funeral?

2. What does the narrator decide they should do 40 years after Hector disappeared?

3. Who is Hector in relation to the narrator? When was the last time the narrator has seen him?

4. What does the narrator's mother say when he suggests they bury Hector? How does the narrator reply?

5. What type of person does the narrator say Hector was? How old would he be if he were alive? What does the narrator think Hector would be like?

6. What does the narrator say his mother does which made her "good at funerals" (2)?

7. What does the narrator suggest may have happened to Hector as he hitchhiked to Spokane?

8. What does he say was the saddest thing said about Hector?

9. Where was Hector's casket buried? What does the narrator say about the Coeur d'Alene Catholics?

10. Who does the narrator live with? Why do other Indians not judge him for this?

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