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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Love, the government lady, takes applications for males to work ____________ jobs.
(a) CCC
(b) IRS
(c) Construction
(d) Trucking

2. What does Billie Jo tell Louise that Billie Jo has like her mother?
(a) Wiry hair
(b) Piano hands
(c) Tiny ears
(d) Full lips

3. What does Billie Jo take with her when she leaves in the middle of the night?
(a) A little money and food
(b) Clothes on her back
(c) A little money and Ma's picture
(d) Aunt Ellis' letter and some food

4. Ma used to arrange the items on the shelf _____________________.
(a) On the porch
(b) In the pantry
(c) Above the piano
(d) Over the stove

5. What does Billie Jo's father have on his face?
(a) Beard
(b) Mustache
(c) Spots
(d) Jam

6. What does Billie Jo realize about Louise?
(a) Daddy needs her
(b) She is pregnant
(c) She won't stay
(d) She is very artistic

7. What do Daddy and Billie Jo keep from the two boxes of Ma's things?
(a) Love letters
(b) Almost everything
(c) Family photos
(d) Sheet music

8. Where does Billie Jo go in the middle of the night?
(a) Aunt Ellis' house
(b) Amarillo
(c) A train headed west
(d) Miss Freeland's house

9. How does Billie Jo test the difference between snow and dust?
(a) She shovels the walk
(b) She makes a snow angel
(c) She makes a snowball
(d) She mixes it with water

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

11. What does Billie Jo sense returning to the area?
(a) Growing crops
(b) Rain
(c) Religion
(d) Hope

12. Which of the following does the piano not represent for Billie Jo?
(a) Ma
(b) Acceptance
(c) Success
(d) Comfort

13. Who begins to leave the area in large groups?
(a) Road workers
(b) Farmers
(c) Retailers
(d) Migrant workers

14. Which of the following do the children not bring for the live-in family?
(a) Candy
(b) Clothes
(c) Toys
(d) Food

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mad Dog leaving?

2. What is the relationship between Billie Jo and Daddy?

3. What does Billie Jo have some trepidation about looking at?

4. After Mad Dog's performance, Billie Jo knows that he ________________________.

5. Where does Aunt Ellis live?

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