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

2. 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 there were no white people living near the reservation.
(c) Because Hector had his own car.
(d) Because white men would not try to pick up an Indian.

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

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) Felt guilty.
(b) Cried.
(c) Buried their hate.
(d) Sung him an honor song.

5. How many children did Hector's grandmother have?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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