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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 sliding down her mother's skin?
(a) Jam
(b) Rain
(c) Blood
(d) Syrup

2. What happens when Billie Jo throws the pail outside?
(a) It hits Ma and she is burned
(b) It breaks a window
(c) It hits a neighbor kid
(d) It breaks in two

3. In her dream what does Billie Jo find in the neighbor's house?
(a) A piano
(b) A statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(c) Dead apple trees
(d) A wall of dust

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

5. When did Ma start to teach Billie Jo how to play the piano?
(a) During summer vacation
(b) On Christmas
(c) On her fifth birthday
(d) On her tenth birthday

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is Billie Jo born?

2. What type of trees are in Billie Jo's front yard?

3. The boy who stops at Billie Jo's house to work and eat is headed to __________________.

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

5. What crop is dying and drying up?

(see the answer key)

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