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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 did the narrator's cousin tell him they could do if they were royalty?
(a) Have a dozen maids.
(b) Wear fancy clothes.
(c) Have a dozen babies.
(d) Live in a castle.

2. How does the narrator feel Hector died?
(a) Murder.
(b) Drug overdose.
(c) Car wreck.
(d) Suicide.

3. What does the narrator admit Hector was most of the time?
(a) A curmudgeonly prick.
(b) A temperamental asshole.
(c) A good-for-nothing liar.
(d) A regular jerk.

4. What did each mourner do after the coffin was lowered into the ground?
(a) Sing a mourning song.
(b) Bow and leave.
(c) Throw dirt on it.
(d) Cry.

5. Where does the narrator's one surviving uncle live?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Spokane.
(d) Seattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attended Hector's wake?

2. How many of the narrator's cousins are in prison?

3. How many people has the narrator kissed?

4. What does the narrator say happens to violent men?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

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

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. 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. Why does the narrator say people have a tendency to aggrandize the dead?

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

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

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