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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the piano not represent for Billie Jo?
(a) Success
(b) Comfort
(c) Acceptance
(d) Ma

3. What makes the people of Oklahoma begin to think that the dust plague might be over?
(a) A rainbow
(b) A week of rain
(c) Much cooler weather
(d) Two days of clear blue

4. What does the passenger take from Billie Jo when he leaves?
(a) Magazine
(b) Money
(c) Food
(d) Brochure

5. What hope floats in in this chapter, August 1934?
(a) Higher wages
(b) Increased wheat prices
(c) The smell of rain
(d) Bank loans

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Love, the government lady, takes applications for males to work ____________ jobs.

2. How does Billie Jo describe her train trip?

3. Billie Jo is glad to be around Mad Dog because he _________________________ or treat her like she's handicapped.

4. What does Joe De La Flor need to divest himself of?

5. Which of the following is not something Billie Jo feels bitter about?

(see the answer key)

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