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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. How does the narrator say Indian's view their worst losses and greatest beauty?
(a) As equally painful.
(b) As par for the course.
(c) As sacred and necessary.
(d) As a waste of time.

2. What did the narrator decide to do for Hector 40 years after he disappeared?
(a) Hire a detective.
(b) Try to find him.
(c) Bury him.
(d) Build a shrine for him.

3. What does the narrator's mother says you will find inside an Indian self-help book?
(a) Wisdom for the ages.
(b) Healing recipes.
(c) Pictures of other self-help books.
(d) Nothing useful.

4. What sad thing was said at Hector's funeral in regards to his lack of fear of the white man?
(a) The white man probably disappeared him.
(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 led him to a life of drinking and fighting.

5. Who attended Hector's wake?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Only the narrator and his mother.
(c) Most of the tribe.
(d) The narrator's mother and cousin and uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say to his mother when she notes that they do not have Hector's body?

2. What does the narrator say was the best part of Hector's funeral?

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

4. How many of the narrator's cousin live in poverty on the reservation?

5. How many people has the narrator kissed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say of the family he has lost, his aunts, uncles, cousins and father and those who are still living in paragraph 2 of "Happy Trails"?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator's mother say about Indian self help books?

10. Describe the narrator's relationship with his female cousin whom he describes as gorgeous.

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