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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1934,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Billie Jo see eating up the wheat crop?
(a) Locusts
(b) Grasshoppers
(c) Beetles
(d) Deer

2. Ma thinks they should try growing some crops that do better in dry weather like cotton or ______________.
(a) Corn
(b) Alfalfa
(c) Sorghum
(d) Soybeans

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

4. What does Daddy do as a result of Ma's injuries?
(a) Hires some help
(b) Makes out his will
(c) Goes on a drinking binge
(d) Sells the farm

5. How old will Billie Jo be when her mother has the new baby?
(a) 21
(b) 10
(c) 9
(d) 14

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Daddy and Ma argue about?

2. What flowers would grow on the graves of the war dead?

3. Billie Jo says about her father that "If he had cried, his tears would have been __________ too, but he didn't cry."

4. How many trees are in Billie Jo's front yard?

5. What does Billie Jo see sliding down her mother's skin?

(see the answer key)

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