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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Winter 1935,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following do the children not bring for the live-in family?
(a) Toys
(b) Clothes
(c) Candy
(d) Food

2. What is Daddy's job?
(a) Selling men's clothes
(b) Selling agricultural implements
(c) Auditing tax returns
(d) Digging holes for towers

3. Ma is burned so badly that she is _______________________.
(a) Charred
(b) Fevered
(c) Comatose
(d) Unrecognizable

4. Why does Ma make Billie Jo return to the store?
(a) She got four cents too much in change
(b) She forgot to get the mail
(c) She forgot the sugar
(d) She forgot the coffee

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ma care for the trees?

2. What totally unexpected event occurs in Autumn 1934?

3. The sheriff catches some men producing _________________ down by the river.

4. What happens when Billie Jo throws the pail outside?

5. What does Billie Jo call her father since Ma's death?

(see the answer key)

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