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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the dust storm that roars through the area?
(a) Red
(b) Grey
(c) Blue
(d) Black

2. What ruins the family's winter wheat crop?
(a) Deer
(b) A dust storm
(c) Hail
(d) Locusts

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

4. What does Billie Jo forget about when she's on the road?
(a) Her homework
(b) The depression
(c) Her grade card
(d) The dust

5. What do the neighbors talk about after Ma's funeral?
(a) How dirty the house is
(b) How young Ma was
(c) How Ma was too good for Daddy
(d) How Billie Jo threw the bucket of kerosene

6. What does Billie Jo like to fall from the trees into her hair?
(a) Buds
(b) Leaves
(c) Blossoms
(d) Twigs

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

8. What hope floats in in this chapter, August 1934?
(a) Bank loans
(b) The smell of rain
(c) Increased wheat prices
(d) Higher wages

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

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

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

12. What is Billie Jo's new baby brother named?
(a) Vaughn
(b) Frederick
(c) Franklin
(d) Fletcher

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used to encourage Billie Jo to try out for a sport?

2. Who has a reputation for cheating customers at his store?

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

4. Who will be singing at the dance revue?

5. How does Billie Jo have to set the table during the dust bowl era?

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