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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Daddy say uses up more water than the wheat?
(a) Doing laundry
(b) Washing dishes
(c) Apple trees
(d) Baths

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

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

5. What does Billie Jo see on the way to the store?
(a) Tumbleweeds
(b) Car dealership
(c) Mountains
(d) Rib-thin cattle

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arley ask Billie Jo to do for Vera Wanderdale's dance revue?

2. What does Daddy say Mad Dog's real name is?

3. What does Billie Jo hunger for in her life?

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

5. Which of the following is not one of the things Billie Jo expects to eat after the apples are ripe?

(see the answer key)

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