2. How does Billie Jo have to set the table during the dust bowl era?
(a) With a plastic tablecloth
(b) With the plates and glasses upside down
(c) With dish towels covering the food
(d) With plastic wrap over the dishes

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

4. Who is Arley Wanderdale?
(a) Billie Jo's music teacher
(b) The local extension agent
(c) The army recruiter
(d) A seed salesman

5. What noteworthy event happens in Hawaii in the summer of 1934?
(a) Mount Kilauea erupts
(b) The stereo is invented
(c) Pearl Harbor is attacked
(d) There is a pineapple pickers strike

6. How does dust get into the classroom?
(a) The skylight
(b) The cracks in the walls and the windows
(c) Through the mail slot
(d) Down the chimney

7. What does Billie Jo call her father since Ma's death?
(a) My father
(b) Daddy dearest
(c) Papa
(d) Kerosene killer

8. What musical instrument does Billie Jo like?
(a) Violin
(b) Piano
(c) Flute
(d) Guitar

9. Who will be singing at the dance revue?
(a) Arley
(b) Billie Jo
(c) Mad Dog
(d) Livie

10. What does Billie Jo hunger for in her life?
(a) Cheesecake
(b) Beauty
(c) Truth
(d) Cheeseburgers

11. What happens when Billie Jo throws the pail outside?
(a) It breaks in two
(b) It hits a neighbor kid
(c) It hits Ma and she is burned
(d) It breaks a window

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

13. Which of the following is not one of the things Billie Jo expects to eat after the apples are ripe?
(a) Candy
(b) Cake
(c) Sauce
(d) Pudding

14. What can Billie Jo no longer tolerate?
(a) Living with her father
(b) Being a teenager
(c) Going to school
(d) Being in a room with a piano

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