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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) Grounds keeper.
(b) School teacher.
(c) Drives the water truck.
(d) He is unemployed.

2. Who does the Indian Victor meet know?
(a) Victor's father.
(b) Victor's mother.
(c) Victor's grandfather.
(d) Victor's older brother.

3. What does Thomas list in a journal entry?
(a) Ten wrongs the government did to the Indians.
(b) Ten reasons to marry Chess.
(c) Ten commandments given to the reservations.
(d) Ten ways to keep an audience interested.

4. What does Checkers first tell Father Arnold when she sees him?
(a) She is in love with Thomas.
(b) She is quitting the church.
(c) She has quit the band.
(d) She is in love with him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the FedEx letter say that they receive after Victor and Checkers fight?

2. When does Thomas write Reservation Blues?

3. What happens when the band arrives for its first gig?

4. Where do Victor, Thomas and Junior practice?

5. Who does Samuel injure in a game?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Robert Johnson at the reservation, and what does Thomas say to him about Big Mom?

3. What does Victor dream about that involves his mother and his stepfather?

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

5. What do Thomas, Victor and Junior decide to do when Victor and Junior come over to Thomas' house?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Lester end up with a broken nose during the game with the police?

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