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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 plastic wrap over the dishes
(d) With dish towels covering the food

2. What does Daddy no longer tell Billie Jo?
(a) That she can be anything she wants to be
(b) To put her hands to good use
(c) That she is beautiful
(d) That he loves her

3. To what state is Billie Jo's best friend moving?
(a) California
(b) Ohio
(c) New Mexico
(d) Georgi

4. Why does Daddy get a different job?
(a) He wants an office job
(b) He is bored with farming
(c) The crop is not going to produce anything
(d) He needs insurance benefits

5. What is in the pail that Ma grabs in the kitchen?
(a) Water
(b) Oil
(c) Oats
(d) Kerosene

6. Ma is burned so badly that she is _______________________.
(a) Comatose
(b) Fevered
(c) Charred
(d) Unrecognizable

7. What event is held at the courthouse?
(a) Art exhibit
(b) Barbershop quartet show
(c) Political rally
(d) Ice cream social

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

9. What does Billie Jo wish she could buy at the store?
(a) Makeup
(b) Headbands
(c) Chocolates
(d) Sheet music

10. How does Ma care for the trees?
(a) Doesn't do anything to them
(b) Fertilizes them every week
(c) Waters them despite the drought
(d) Prunes them each summer

11. Who used to encourage Billie Jo to try out for a sport?
(a) Daddy
(b) Ma
(c) The softball coach
(d) The basketball coach

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

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

14. What flowers would grow on the graves of the war dead?
(a) White roses
(b) Blue iris
(c) Pink peonies
(d) Red poppies

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daddy feed Ma?

2. When did Ma start to teach Billie Jo how to play the piano?

3. What type of trees are in Billie Jo's front yard?

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

5. What does Arley ask Billie Jo to do for Vera Wanderdale's dance revue?

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