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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Checkers looking for when she leaves Thomas' house?
(a) Father Arnold.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Victor.
(d) Junior.

2. What does Big Mom once try to do in the past?
(a) Teach music at the local high school.
(b) Teach Michael White Hawk the saxophone.
(c) Give up music.
(d) Make it big in the white man's world.

3. How many hours a day does Coyote Springs practice for the next week?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

4. Of what does Thomas tell Chess he is afraid?
(a) Failure.
(b) White Hawk.
(c) Fame.
(d) Big Mom.

5. Where does Checkers remain?
(a) At the airport.
(b) At the hotel.
(c) In a bar near their hotel.
(d) In a pastry shop across from the audition building.

6. What does Chess ask of Checkers?
(a) If Checkers is pregnant with Junior's baby.
(b) If Checkers plans to help Big Mom.
(c) If Checkers will move back to Arizona.
(d) If Checkers will come with Chess and Thomas to Spokane.

7. What pain does Junior recall?
(a) The breakup of the band.
(b) His father's death.
(c) The breakup with his college girlfriend.
(d) His mother's death.

8. What does Thomas decide he has to do?
(a) Get Checkers to leave the reservation.
(b) Get Junior to protect Johnson.
(c) Leave the reservation for a while.
(d) Get Checkers to rejoin the band.

9. What has two non-Spokane Indians as its members?
(a) The reservation police force.
(b) The band.
(c) The reservation governing board.
(d) The Indian grievance board.

10. To whom does Big Mom say Robert Johnson's guitar belongs?
(a) Robert Johnson.
(b) No one.
(c) The person who wants it the most.
(d) Victor.

11. Who are Chess and Checkers?
(a) Thomas' son and the son's friend.
(b) Two people with whom Thomas walks to church.
(c) A brother and sister who are members of Coyote Springs.
(d) Thomas' two second cousins.

12. What does Thomas give each band member during the plane flight?
(a) An osprey feather.
(b) An eagle feather.
(c) A necklace.
(d) A bracelet.

13. Why nightmare does Checkers continue to have?
(a) About Father Arnold.
(b) About Junior.
(c) About Wright.
(d) About Sheridan.

14. What does Sheridan say to Checkers in her dream?
(a) That Sheridan wants to make her famous.
(b) That Sheridan believes Victor is the devil.
(c) That Sheridan believes Victor works for the devil.
(d) That Sheridan confuses her with American Indians in general.

15. Who interviews the band?
(a) Someone from the Spokane Indian Reservation.
(b) The Times' music section.
(c) The local university's newspaper.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the record company want to bring Coyote Springs?

2. What does Checkers want to do?

3. Who prints a letter in the reservation newspaper?

4. What does Big Mom say Robert Johnson was meant to be?

5. What does Thomas want to do to which Big Mom says no?

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