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

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

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

4. Who holds Hector in the photograph the narrator has of him?
(a) HIs mother, Alice.
(b) His grandmother, Agnes.
(c) His sister, Abbeth.
(d) His aunt, Agitha.

5. The narrator says that Hector's grandmother's children were the first generation to do what?
(a) Move from the reservation.
(b) Go to college.
(c) Go to war.
(d) Live in a house with four walls.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator imagine is buried in Hector's empty coffin?

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

3. Who sang an old mourning song by the graveside after Hector's casket was buried?

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

5. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope the Indians who killed Hector did as they "buried his body deep in the woods" (3)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How does the narrator feel at the end of the story standing in the cemetery?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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