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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event is held at the courthouse?
(a) Barbershop quartet show
(b) Art exhibit
(c) Political rally
(d) Ice cream social

2. Why can the mail train not get through?
(a) The rails are broken
(b) The dust drifts the tracks like snow
(c) The engine fails
(d) It is held up

3. Mrs. Love, the government lady, takes applications for males to work ____________ jobs.
(a) Construction
(b) IRS
(c) CCC
(d) Trucking

4. Which of the following does not catch on fire in the town?
(a) The church
(b) The school
(c) Railroad cars
(d) Cars

5. Of what disease does Pete Guyton, the produce man, die?
(a) Cancer
(b) Dust Pneumonia
(c) Heart attack
(d) Kidney failure

Short Answer Questions

1. What totally unexpected event occurs in Autumn 1934?

2. What does Miss Freeland explain to Billie Jo's class?

3. What does Billie Jo do as the dust storm approaches?

4. Who begins to leave the area in large groups?

5. What does Daddy feed Ma?

(see the answer key)

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