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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do Victor and Junior do after the show?
2. What does David find out about his nephew, Michael?
3. To where does Chess say she is thinking of moving?
4. What type of men does Checkers always date?
5. What is keeping Chess from sleeping?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the man who Thomas meets at an intersection on the reservation first say to Thomas?
2. What happens with the guitar and Thomas the night he plays for Victor and Junior?
3. What does Thomas ask Chess and Checkers to do and what is their response?
4. What does Thomas do after the show at Flathead?
5. What does Thomas ask Chess about her church, what is her response and what story does he tell that starts her crying?
6. What is Victor doing while the band is waiting for their turn in the the battle of the bands?
7. 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?
8. What does the guitar do about Thomas singing to Chess, and what does Chess eventually do?
9. What does Victor dream about that involves his mother and his stepfather?
10. Why is Robert Johnson at the reservation, and what does Thomas say to him about Big Mom?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in "Reservation Blues".
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of "Reservation Blues". How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of "Reservation Blues". How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
Essay Topic 2
Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?
2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.
5. What type of plot do you think Reservation Blues is? Explain your response.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in "Reservation Blues". Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?
2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in "Reservation Blues". Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?
3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in "Reservation Blues". Consider not only Junior's suicide but the death of the band's dreams and Father Arnold leaving the priesthood.
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