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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 did Robert do years ago which is bothering him?
(a) Left his wife and children.
(b) Made a particular deal.
(c) Killed a friend accidentally.
(d) Borrowed money from the mafia.

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

3. What do Victor and Junior ask Thomas when they see him with the guitar?
(a) If it belongs to Robert Johnson.
(b) Where he got it.
(c) If it is playable.
(d) What is the guitar's name.

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) He misunderstood the invitation.
(c) The performance has been canceled.
(d) The bar will pay for their motel.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are upset with the men playing music?

3. What does Chess do when the band is playing?

4. What event did Thomas witness that turned him against the Christian religion?

5. Who does the Indian Victor meet know?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Thomas do with the guitar Johnson left in his van and what do Victor and Junior say to Thomas about the guitar? What do they do to the guitar?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. What do Thomas and Chess do when Victor and Junior are sleeping in the van?

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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