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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Billie Jo see sliding down her mother's skin?
(a) Syrup
(b) Blood
(c) Rain
(d) Jam

2. What does President Roosevelt encourage people to plant in the dust bowl?
(a) Wildflowers
(b) Soybeans
(c) Prairie grass
(d) Trees

3. Who does Billie Jo go on the road with to play piano?
(a) Arley Wanderdale
(b) Mr. Romney
(c) The Goodwin Gospel Group
(d) The Brice Family

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

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

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

7. What does Billie Jo wish she could do in town?
(a) Go to the movies
(b) Buy a new dress
(c) Pick up the show costumes
(d) Go to dinner

8. What does Ma think will help get water to the crops?
(a) A sprinkler system
(b) Water tower
(c) A windmill
(d) Greenhouse

9. Which of the following does not hurt Billie Jo's hands?
(a) Air
(b) Salt
(c) Heat
(d) Dust

10. Arley thinks that Billie Jo can ___________________________.
(a) Be anything she wants to be
(b) Play piano again if she tries
(c) Learn to cook
(d) Go to college on a scholarship

11. What is Daddy doing based on advice Ma had given him?
(a) Selling the farm
(b) Hiring some help
(c) Buying a tractor
(d) Digging a pond

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

13. What does Daddy do as a result of Ma's injuries?
(a) Goes on a drinking binge
(b) Makes out his will
(c) Sells the farm
(d) Hires some help

14. In Billie Jo's dream, Ma gives birth to a baby ______________.
(a) Of flames
(b) Deer
(c) Boy
(d) Girl

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does dust get into the classroom?

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

3. What happens to Ma as Billie Jo is trying to save the apple trees?

4. The boy who stops at Billie Jo's house to work and eat is headed to __________________.

5. For what fruit does Billie Jo have a fondness?

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