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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. Who sang an old mourning song by the graveside after Hector's casket was buried?
(a) The tribal elder.
(b) The whole group of mourners.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The narrator's mother.

2. What information was carved into Hector's wooden grave marker?
(a) His name and date of burial.
(b) His name, date of birth, and date of disappearance.
(c) His name and a quote from a mourning song.
(d) HIs name only.

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

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

5. What does the narrator think Hector may have done which got him killed?
(a) Harassed a white man or group of white men.
(b) Insulted someone or admitted he had an affair with someone's girlfriend or wife.
(c) Owed money to a drug dealer.
(d) Had an affair with a white woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best thing the narrator recalls his father saying to him?

2. Who does the narrator say he knows is buried in Hector's empty coffin?

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

4. At Hector's grave, the narrator wonders if it is possible for an Indian to die in what way?

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

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

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

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 wish one of his uncle's killers would do after the funeral?

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

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

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

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

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