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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what year is Billie Jo born?
(a) 1920
(b) 1934
(c) 1945
(d) 1919
2. Billie Jo likes seeing new places and ________________________.
(a) Taking pictures
(b) Having fun
(c) Going sightseeing
(d) Meeting new people
3. What does Billie Jo do as the dust storm approaches?
(a) Hides in her bedroom
(b) Watches from a big window
(c) Prays
(d) Stuffs rugs under the doors and rags around the windows
4. How old will Billie Jo be when her mother has the new baby?
(a) 9
(b) 10
(c) 21
(d) 14
5. What does Billie Jo call playing piano on stage?
(a) Terrifying
(b) Heaven
(c) Nerve wracking
(d) A one time thing
6. What does Billie Jo see eating up the wheat crop?
(a) Beetles
(b) Deer
(c) Grasshoppers
(d) Locusts
7. In what war did Billie Jo's father serve?
(a) Vietnam War
(b) World War II
(c) World War I
(d) Korean War
8. How does dust get into the classroom?
(a) The skylight
(b) The cracks in the walls and the windows
(c) Down the chimney
(d) Through the mail slot
9. What crop is dying and drying up?
(a) Soybeans
(b) Corn
(c) Oats
(d) Wheat
10. What is in the pail that Ma grabs in the kitchen?
(a) Kerosene
(b) Water
(c) Oil
(d) Oats
11. Who does Billie Jo go on the road with to play piano?
(a) Arley Wanderdale
(b) The Goodwin Gospel Group
(c) Mr. Romney
(d) The Brice Family
12. In Billie Jo's dream, Ma gives birth to a baby ______________.
(a) Deer
(b) Of flames
(c) Boy
(d) Girl
13. What musical instrument does Billie Jo like?
(a) Flute
(b) Piano
(c) Guitar
(d) Violin
14. Who will be singing at the dance revue?
(a) Livie
(b) Billie Jo
(c) Arley
(d) Mad Dog
15. What is Billie Jo's new baby brother named?
(a) Franklin
(b) Vaughn
(c) Fletcher
(d) Frederick
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the girls at the show want to know about Mad Dog?
2. What helps Billie Jo escape life's problems?
3. What is Daddy's job?
4. What scholastic achievement does Billie Jo reach?
5. What does Arley ask Billie Jo to do for Vera Wanderdale's dance revue?
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