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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 like to fall from the trees into her hair?
(a) Leaves
(b) Buds
(c) Blossoms
(d) Twigs

2. What do Mr. Noble and Mr. Romney do to take care of the pests?
(a) Call the exterminator
(b) Have a rabbit-killing contest
(c) Set traps
(d) Put out poison

3. What do Daddy and Ma argue about?
(a) Rain
(b) Politics
(c) Children
(d) Religion

4. Billie Jo likes seeing new places and ________________________.
(a) Having fun
(b) Taking pictures
(c) Meeting new people
(d) Going sightseeing

5. What does Billie Jo do as the dust storm approaches?
(a) Hides in her bedroom
(b) Watches from a big window
(c) Prays
(d) Stuffs rugs under the doors and rags around the windows

Short Answer Questions

1. What does President Roosevelt encourage people to plant in the dust bowl?

2. What does Billie Jo see on the way to the store?

3. What does Daddy feed Ma?

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

5. How does Ma care for the trees?

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