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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what opera is Billie Jo's teacher going to sing?
(a) Aida
(b) Madame Butterfly
(c) Rigoletto
(d) The Marriage of Figaro

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

3. Ma thinks they should try growing some crops that do better in dry weather like cotton or ______________.
(a) Sorghum
(b) Corn
(c) Alfalfa
(d) Soybeans

4. The boy who stops at Billie Jo's house to work and eat is headed to __________________.
(a) Oregon
(b) Las Vegas
(c) Georgia
(d) California

5. How much wheat does one farmer get from a 20-bushel acre?
(a) 8 bushels
(b) 3 bushels
(c) 17 bushels
(d) 13 bushels

6. What does Billie Jo call playing piano on stage?
(a) A one time thing
(b) Terrifying
(c) Nerve wracking
(d) Heaven

7. How many times does Billie Jo attend the event at the courthouse?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 7

8. Why does Billie Jo go to Mrs. Brown's house?
(a) To eat raspberry pie
(b) To learn to sew
(c) To see a flower as big as a plate
(d) To take singing lessons

9. What does Miss Freeland explain to Billie Jo's class?
(a) The reasons for World War I
(b) The case for evolution
(c) The solar system
(d) How the drought happened

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

11. What does Arley ask Billie Jo to do for Vera Wanderdale's dance revue?
(a) Sew costumes
(b) Sell tickets
(c) Play piano
(d) Serve refreshments

12. In what year is Billie Jo born?
(a) 1919
(b) 1920
(c) 1945
(d) 1934

13. In what war did Billie Jo's father serve?
(a) World War II
(b) Korean War
(c) World War I
(d) Vietnam War

14. How old will Billie Jo be when her mother has the new baby?
(a) 9
(b) 14
(c) 10
(d) 21

15. What little bit of good happens at the beginning of Summer 1934?
(a) An inheritance
(b) A drizzling rain
(c) A new car
(d) A bank loan

Short Answer Questions

1. Arley thinks that Billie Jo can ___________________________.

2. What do Daddy and Ma argue about?

3. What does Daddy think about Ma's idea to get water to the crops?

4. How had Ma brought in a little bit of money once in awhile?

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

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