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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louise arrange in a bowl?
(a) Apples
(b) Candles
(c) Flowers
(d) Peaches

2. How is Daddy going to get help with the farm?
(a) A government loan
(b) Better seeds
(c) A new partner
(d) A new tractor

3. How many other children other than Billie Jo are in Billie Jo's family in the Beginning?
(a) 7
(b) 3
(c)
(d) 12

4. What do Billie Jo and the passenger have in common?
(a) Bad home lives
(b) The same birth date
(c) Fear of being alone
(d) The need to escape the dust

5. Where do people in town go to listen to Mad Dog's radio performance?
(a) The VFW hall
(b) The school
(c) Church
(d) The hardware store

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Billie Jo think she should get extra credit in class?

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

3. The sheriff catches some men producing _________________ down by the river.

4. Billie Jo likes seeing new places and ________________________.

5. Arley thinks that Billie Jo can ___________________________.

(see the answer key)

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