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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 does Junior dream about a car when he was young?
(a) Having a car take off down a hill when he was alone in it.
(b) Being locked in a car for three days.
(c) Being hit by a car when he was three.
(d) Being in a car outside the bar where his parents were drinking.

2. What does Indian time mean?
(a) You are never too early.
(b) Events occur when they occur.
(c) You are never too late.
(d) Time is in the mind of the white man.

3. What does Thomas ask Chess and Checkers?
(a) If they will join the band.
(b) If they want to move to his reservation.
(c) If they like Victor and Junior.
(d) If they have jobs.

4. What does Samuel tell Lester when Lester asks if Samuel wants children?
(a) That one is already on the way.
(b) He wants five children.
(c) He does not want any children.
(d) He does not know if he wants children.

5. From whom does a FedEx package arrive?
(a) A bar owner on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
(b) The Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(c) A tavern in Seattle.
(d) Chess.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Robert know he needs a particular woman?

2. What does David Walks Along say about the band?

3. What does Chess ask Thomas about religion?

4. What does Checker admit in a journal entry about Father Arnold?

5. What does Victor do before Thomas can play a song?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chess ask Thomas about religion and how does Thomas respond?

2. What is Victor doing while the band is waiting for their turn in the the battle of the bands?

3. What does Thomas do after the show at Flathead?

4. How did Thomas' father, Samuel, end up playing basketball against six police officers when he was younger?

5. How does the song "Reservation Blues" come about?

6. What surprises Thomas about Victor and Junior's music, who comes to listen to the band rehearse, what kind of music do they expect and what does the band actually play?

7. What does the man who Thomas meets at an intersection on the reservation first say to Thomas?

8. What was the mix-up with the gig in Seattle?

9. How did Victor and Junior begin drinking and what is Thomas's drinking history?

10. What does Thomas ask Chess about her church, what is her response and what story does he tell that starts her crying?

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