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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the best thing the narrator recalls his father saying to him?
2. Why is the narrator certain Hector did not get into the car with white strangers?
3. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story as he stands in the cemetery?
4. What did one mourner say white archeologists would do 100 years from now after Hector's grave was buried?
5. At the graveside, what does the narrator hope whoever killed Hector would do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator wish one of his uncle's killers would do after the funeral?
2. Why does the narrator feel certain Hector would not have been killed by a white man?
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. Who is Agnes? Why does the narrator have a picture of her?
6. What does the narrator plan to do at the end of the story?
7. Why does the narrator say it was inevitable that Hector would become "a violent man who died violently" (3)?
8. What does one of the mourners say will happen in 100 years before they leave the cemetery?
9. What does the narrator hopes the Indians who killed his uncle did as they buried him?
10. What is the best thing the narrator's father ever said to him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a brief essay about the significance of the narrator's relationship with his cousin on the story. How does this relationship move the plot?
Essay Topic 2
Genre is a category assigned to a literary work, like a novel. What are some genres that could be used to classify "Happy Trails"? What is the main genre of the story? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the author of "Happy Trails." Who is he? What else has he written? How is "Happy Trails" similar or different from his other works?
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