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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 killed the narrator's father?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) Cancer.
(d) A car crash.
2. What were the causes of death for the narrator's aunts and uncles?
(a) Cancer, heart disease and car wrecks.
(b) War fatalities and homicide.
(c) Plane crashes and stroke.
(d) Suicides and kidney failure.
3. What does the narrator say to his mother when she notes that they do not have Hector's body?
(a) They can bury the memory of him.
(b) You don't need a body to bury a man.
(c) They discovered his body the day before.
(d) Then Hector must still be alive.
4. Where does the narrator's one surviving uncle live?
(a) Spokane.
(b) Oregon.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) Seattle.
5. What Indian tribe do the narrator and his family belong?
(a) Lakota.
(b) Coeur d'Alene.
(c) Sioux.
(d) Kootenai.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old would Hector be in the present if he were still alive?
2. Where did the narrator's "beautiful and distant cousin" (1) move?
3. How does the narrator feel Hector died?
4. What does the narrator's mother says you will find inside an Indian self-help book?
5. How many people has the narrator kissed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the narrator's relationship with his female cousin whom he describes as gorgeous.
2. When the narrator's mother says Hector was a good man, the narrator says he was great. Does he really believe Hector was great? How do you know?
3. What does the narrator decide they should do 40 years after Hector disappeared?
4. What does he say was the saddest thing said about Hector?
5. What does the narrator say was the best part of the funeral?
6. Why does the narrator say people have a tendency to aggrandize the dead?
7. Who does the narrator live with? Why do other Indians not judge him for this?
8. Where was Hector's casket buried? What does the narrator say about the Coeur d'Alene Catholics?
9. What does the narrator suggest may have happened to Hector as he hitchhiked to Spokane?
10. What does the narrator's mother say about Indian self help books?
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