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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 does the narrator say to his mother when she notes that they do not have Hector's body?
(a) They discovered his body the day before.
(b) They can bury the memory of him.
(c) You don't need a body to bury a man.
(d) Then Hector must still be alive.

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

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

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 did not even know he lived let alone died.
(b) The white man probably disappeared him.
(c) The white man was not afraid of him either.
(d) The white man led him to a life of drinking and fighting.

5. What joke was made at Hector's funeral?
(a) Hector was so full of himself he was probably watching them to hear what everyone said about him.
(b) Hector was such a showoff they were surprised he did not return from the dead to lie in his coffin and die again.
(c) Hector loved to drink so much they were surprised he did not come back for the free wine.
(d) Hector was such a showoff they were surprised he did not come back to sing before a crowd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hector say he was headed when he left 41 years ago?

2. What killed the narrator's father?

3. Where did the narrator's "beautiful and distant cousin" (1) move?

4. How old was the narrator when he had his first kiss?

5. What did the narrator decide to do for Hector 40 years after he disappeared?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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

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