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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. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?
(a) Turn himself in.
(b) Pray for forgiveness.
(c) Commit suicide.
(d) Send him a letter telling him where his body was buried.

2. At Hector's grave, the narrator wonders if it is possible for an Indian to die in what way?
(a) Quietly.
(b) Effortlessly.
(c) Alone.
(d) Peacefully.

3. What is the best thing the narrator recalls his father saying to him?
(a) He is the son he always wanted.
(b) All of his kids were accidents, but he was his best accident.
(c) Take care of your mother.
(d) You are a fine young man.

4. During what battle in Montana was Custer killed?
(a) Little Bighorn.
(b) Wounded Knee.
(c) Rosebud.
(d) Fallen Timbers.

5. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?
(a) Because Hector had his own car.
(b) Because white men would not try to pick up an Indian.
(c) Because he would only get into a car with other Indians he knew.
(d) Because there were no white people living near the reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that Hector's grandmother's children were the first generation to do what?

2. How many children did Hector's grandmother have?

3. What did one mourner say white archeologists would do 100 years from now after Hector's grave was buried?

4. Due to the violence to which Hector was born into, the narrator says it was inevitable Hector would become what?

5. Who holds Hector in the photograph the narrator has of him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator wish one of his uncle's killers would do after the funeral?

2. Why does the narrator say it was inevitable that Hector would become "a violent man who died violently" (3)?

3. Why does the narrator feel certain Hector would not have been killed by a white man?

4. What does the narrator say about why he does not know the mourning song his mother "whisper-sang" (3) after the mourners left the cemetery?

5. Why does the narrator feel certain Hector was most likely killed by a member of his own tribe?

6. What does the narrator hopes the Indians who killed his uncle did as they buried him?

7. What does one of the mourners say will happen in 100 years before they leave the cemetery?

8. What is the best thing the narrator's father ever said to him?

9. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story?

10. How does the narrator imagine Hector met his death after leaving for Spokane?

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