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

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

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

4. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope the Indians who killed Hector did as they "buried his body deep in the woods" (3)?
(a) Sung him an honor song.
(b) Felt guilty.
(c) Buried their hate.
(d) Cried.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?

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

3. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story as he stands in the cemetery?

4. During what battle in Montana was Custer killed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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