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

2. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story as he stands in the cemetery?
(a) Bury the memory of Hector for good.
(b) Take care of his mother.
(c) Find out who killed Hector.
(d) Live longer than every other Indian in the world.

3. What did one mourner say white archeologists would do 100 years from now after Hector's grave was buried?
(a) Put the empty coffin in a museum.
(b) Find the empty coffin and wonder what it all means.
(c) Try to find out who buried and empty coffin.
(d) Come up with some nonsense reason the empty coffin was buried.

4. How old was Hector's grandmother when she moved to the newly formed Coeur d'Alene reservation?
(a) In her teens.
(b) In her 20s.
(c) In her 30s.
(d) 7 or 8.

5. Who does the narrator say he knows is buried in Hector's empty coffin?
(a) His mother.
(b) His entire tribe.
(c) His father.
(d) His great-grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think Hector may have done which got him killed?

3. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?

4. What information was carved into Hector's wooden grave marker?

5. Who does the narrator say likely killed Hector by accident?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the cemetery, who does the narrator imagine is in Hector's casket?

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

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

4. What does one of the mourners say will happen in 100 years before they leave 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 say about why he does not know the mourning song his mother "whisper-sang" (3) after the mourners left the cemetery?

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

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

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

10. Who is Agnes? Why does the narrator have a picture of her?

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