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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Big Mom hear 134 years before Robert Johnson comes?
(a) Horses screaming.
(b) Canon fire.
(c) The nations of Native Americans dying.
(d) Angels singing.

2. What does Thomas want to do with Chess?
(a) Talk to her.
(b) Dance with her.
(c) Buy her a drink.
(d) Play her a song.

3. What does Chess do when the band is playing?
(a) Boo at their mistakes.
(b) Clap and cheer loudly.
(c) Throw wet napkins on the stage.
(d) Go onstage and sing with them.

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

5. Why does being around Betty and Veronica upset Checkers?
(a) They are always criticizing her.
(b) It reminds her of white girls when she was young.
(c) She does not like their names.
(d) The boys like them better.

6. What kind of vehicle is Thomas driving?
(a) A van.
(b) A golf cart.
(c) A SUV.
(d) A jeep.

7. Where does Thomas sleep at Chess's house?
(a) On the floor.
(b) In her bed.
(c) He does not sleep at her house.
(d) On the couch.

8. What disappointed Father Arnold about the reservation?
(a) He does not live in a teepee.
(b) It is a very poor place.
(c) All of the Indians are Protestant.
(d) He did not see any buffalo.

9. What happens to Checkers when she and Victor fight?
(a) She is pushed against the wall.
(b) He throws her out the door.
(c) She is thrown to the ground.
(d) He breaks her nose.

10. Why are Chess and Checkers worried about Thomas?
(a) He has been having nightmares.
(b) He can't find his father.
(c) He needs to get some sleep.
(d) He has not eaten for two days.

11. What will Thomas have to do if he cannot play a song on the guitar?
(a) Get married.
(b) Quit drinking.
(c) Quit telling stories.
(d) Leave the reservation.

12. What does Chess say about her mother's death?
(a) Her father killed her mother.
(b) She was hit by a drunk driver.
(c) She fell from the roof.
(d) She died of cancer.

13. How was Junior's parents killed?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) By a man to whom they owed a great deal of money.
(c) When a train hit a bus they were on.
(d) In a rock slide.

14. What does Chess ask Thomas about religion?
(a) If he believes in the Great Spirit.
(b) If he is a Christian.
(c) If he is an atheist.
(d) If he believes in animal spirits.

15. What does the guitar do during the night?
(a) Whispers nightmares into Victor's sleep.
(b) Go into the house.
(c) Play a new song.
(d) Break a string.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Checkers do while Thomas and Chess talk?

2. What market place in Seattle does the band visit?

3. What do the strangers from outside the reservation expect to hear from the band?

4. What is keeping Chess from sleeping?

5. What do Victor and Junior do after the show?

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