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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 relation to the narrator is Hector?
(a) His father.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His brother.

2. How many people has the narrator kissed?
(a) 30.
(b) 14.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

3. With whom does the narrator live?
(a) His wife.
(b) His cousin.
(c) He lives alone.
(d) His mother.

4. How long ago did the narrator's father die?
(a) 41 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 7 years.

5. Where did the narrator's "beautiful and distant cousin" (1) move?
(a) North Dakota.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Spokane.
(d) South Dakota.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator's mother says you will find inside an Indian self-help book?

4. Who is the only person the narrator kissed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. Describe the conversation between the narrator and his mother about whether Hector is alive or not.

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

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

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

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