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

2. What does the band find out when they arrive at their first gig?
(a) It is owned by a white woman.
(b) It has terrible acoustics.
(c) They know the owner.
(d) They are hours early.

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

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

5. Where do Victor, Thomas and Junior practice?
(a) In the city civic center.
(b) In the school house.
(c) In the church basement.
(d) In an abandoned building.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Junior get fired?

2. What does Victor do before Thomas can play a song?

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

4. What does Chess say about her mother's death?

5. How was Junior's parents killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Father Arnold become a priest and how did he feel about being sent to the reservation?

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

3. What happens at a rest stop on the way to Seattle?

4. What surprises Thomas about Victor and Junior's music, who comes to listen to the band rehearse, what kind of music do they expect and what does the band actually play?

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

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

7. What does Thomas ask Chess and Checkers to do and what is their response?

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

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

10. How does Checkers end up getting injured at Thomas' house?

(see the answer keys)

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