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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 do for work?
(a) He is unemployed.
(b) Drives the water truck.
(c) School teacher.
(d) Grounds keeper.

2. What happens when the band arrives for its first gig?
(a) One of their drums falls out on the highway.
(b) They get lost.
(c) They get a flat tire.
(d) The guitar breaks.

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

4. What does Thomas tell the band after he talks to the bar owner?
(a) The bar has a room where they can sleep.
(b) The bar will pay for their motel.
(c) He misunderstood the invitation.
(d) The performance has been canceled.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Junior start to drink?

2. What does Victor dream about with a priest?

3. To where does Chess say she is thinking of moving?

4. What does Thomas list in a journal entry?

5. What does Chess tell Thomas about her brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Checkers tell Father Arnold when she visits him?

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

3. What does David Walks Along find when he returns to his office from the band rehearsal and what does the band do when they hear his news?

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

5. What does the guitar do about Thomas singing to Chess, and what does Chess eventually do?

6. What happens to the band on the way to a venue not on an Indian Reservation and what surprises the band about the incident?

7. What do Thomas and the two sisters do the night they find his father in the yard?

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. Why can't Chess sleep in the van due to Junior?

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