3. What does Daddy do when a good rain comes following the snow?
(a) Sits in the rain for hours
(b) Cleans the dust out of his tractor
(c) Puts out more barrels and buckets
(d) Goes to town for umbrellas

4. What does Billie Jo see along the tracks?
(a) Hobos
(b) Dogs
(c) Cattle
(d) Migrants

5. Where does Daddy not want Billie Jo to go?
(a) Aunt Ellis' house
(b) College
(c) Amarillo
(d) California

6. What do Billie Jo and Daddy encounter on the way to a funeral?
(a) A black cloud of dust
(b) A train accident
(c) A rainbow
(d) Relatives having a picnic

7. What does the passenger ask Billie Jo for?
(a) Money
(b) Clothes
(c) Food
(d) Chocolate

8. What does Billie Jo finally realize about her father?
(a) She is the light of his life
(b) He is a major disappointment
(c) He never loved her
(d) She is like him in a good way

9. What does Daddy reveal to Billie Jo?
(a) He thought of leaving too
(b) He never wanted another child
(c) He didn't always love Ma
(d) He has a college fund for her

10. Why is Mad Dog leaving?
(a) To work on the railroad
(b) To go to college
(c) To work for the power company
(d) To sing on the radio

11. Who does Billie Jo call from the train station?
(a) Daddy
(b) Aunt Ellis
(c) Mr. Hardly
(d) Mad Dog

12. Where does Aunt Ellis live?
(a) Portland, Oregon
(b) Albuquerque, New Mexico
(c) Waco, Texas
(d) Lubbock, Texas

13. Who has moved into the schoolhouse?
(a) The minister
(b) The head of the school board
(c) A family of five
(d) Miss Freeland

14. How does Billie Jo describe her train trip?
(a) Exhilirating
(b) Interesting
(c) Lonely
(d) Boring

15. Why can the mail train not get through?
(a) The rails are broken
(b) It is held up
(c) The dust drifts the tracks like snow
(d) The engine fails