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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the neighbors talk about after Ma's funeral?
(a) How young Ma was
(b) How dirty the house is
(c) How Ma was too good for Daddy
(d) How Billie Jo threw the bucket of kerosene

2. What flowers would grow on the graves of the war dead?
(a) Pink peonies
(b) Red poppies
(c) Blue iris
(d) White roses

3. What ruins the family's winter wheat crop?
(a) Locusts
(b) Hail
(c) A dust storm
(d) Deer

4. Who does Billie Jo go on the road with to play piano?
(a) Mr. Romney
(b) Arley Wanderdale
(c) The Goodwin Gospel Group
(d) The Brice Family

5. What does Billie Jo forget about when she's on the road?
(a) The depression
(b) Her homework
(c) The dust
(d) Her grade card

6. What crop is dying and drying up?
(a) Oats
(b) Soybeans
(c) Wheat
(d) Corn

7. What scholastic achievement does Billie Jo reach?
(a) Highest in the state achievement tests
(b) Full college scholarship
(c) Completed high school two years early
(d) Winner of the regional spelling bee

8. What is contained in the boxes that Billie Jo finds?
(a) Cookie cutters
(b) Mementoes of Billie Jo's life
(c) Travel brochures
(d) Antique knives

9. What does Miss Freeland explain to Billie Jo's class?
(a) The case for evolution
(b) The reasons for World War I
(c) The solar system
(d) How the drought happened

10. Why does Billie Jo go to Mrs. Brown's house?
(a) To see a flower as big as a plate
(b) To take singing lessons
(c) To learn to sew
(d) To eat raspberry pie

11. Who will be singing at the dance revue?
(a) Livie
(b) Billie Jo
(c) Arley
(d) Mad Dog

12. In what opera is Billie Jo's teacher going to sing?
(a) Aida
(b) The Marriage of Figaro
(c) Madame Butterfly
(d) Rigoletto

13. Billie Jo would be a good athlete because she is ___________ and has great hands.
(a) A team player
(b) Fast
(c) Tall
(d) Aggressive

14. How had Ma brought in a little bit of money once in awhile?
(a) Sewing
(b) Painting
(c) Playing piano
(d) Baking

15. Which of the following does not hurt Billie Jo's hands?
(a) Dust
(b) Heat
(c) Salt
(d) Air

Short Answer Questions

1. What musical instrument does Billie Jo like?

2. How does Ma care for the trees?

3. What is Daddy doing based on advice Ma had given him?

4. What does Daddy say Mad Dog's real name is?

5. In what country did Billie Jo's father serve during the war?

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