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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Junior's parents killed?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) When a train hit a bus they were on.
(c) By a man to whom they owed a great deal of money.
(d) In a rock slide.

2. In what year does Johnson say he faked his death?
(a) 1940.
(b) He didn't fake his death.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1938.

3. What is the name of the Indian reservation where a black man comes at the beginning of the book?
(a) Butte Pass Indian Reservation.
(b) Spokane Indian Reservation.
(c) Hiawatha Indian Reservation.
(d) Praire Dog Indian Reservation.

4. Where does the band perform for their second performance?
(a) The Tipi Pole Tavern.
(b) The Tap and Dance Inn.
(c) The Blue Springs Bar.
(d) The Flathead community center.

5. What happens to Checkers when she and Victor fight?
(a) She is thrown to the ground.
(b) He throws her out the door.
(c) She is pushed against the wall.
(d) He breaks her nose.

6. What does Victor dream about his stepfather?
(a) How kind his stepfather was.
(b) The man taking Victor's mother away.
(c) The way his stepfather beat him.
(d) When his stepfather died.

7. Who are upset with the men playing music?
(a) Robert Johnson.
(b) Local church groups.
(c) Big Mom.
(d) The sheriff.

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

9. What does David find out about his nephew, Michael?
(a) He has been killed in prison.
(b) He is coming back to kill Junior.
(c) He has joined the army.
(d) He has been released from prison.

10. When does Thomas write Reservation Blues?
(a) Two hours after he sat down.
(b) When he is ready to give up writing.
(c) It took him almost a month to write the song.
(d) He did not write Reservation Blues.

11. What happens to Victor's guitar when he is playing?
(a) Its neck splits.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It breaks three strings.
(d) It starts a fire.

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

13. What type of men does Checkers always date?
(a) Men who don't drink alcohol.
(b) Older men.
(c) White men.
(d) Educated men.

14. What does Victor do before Thomas can play a song?
(a) Throw dirt in Thomas's eye.
(b) Smash the guitar.
(c) Break one of Thomas's fingers.
(d) Take a drink from his whiskey flask.

15. What does Chess do when the band is playing?
(a) Go onstage and sing with them.
(b) Boo at their mistakes.
(c) Clap and cheer loudly.
(d) Throw wet napkins on the stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas tell the sisters about his mother?

2. What does Indian time mean?

3. Who does Junior dream has captured him in the nineteenth century?

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

5. What does Victor want to do when he finds out they will be competing against twenty bands?

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