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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Billie Jo and the passenger have in common?
(a) The need to escape the dust
(b) The same birth date
(c) Fear of being alone
(d) Bad home lives

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

3. What is the content of the letter from Aunt Ellis?
(a) She sends details about her will
(b) She wants Billie Jo to come live with her
(c) She informs Daddy of a relative's death
(d) She invites Billie Jo and Daddy to come for a visit

4. What does Billie Jo not want people to say about her?
(a) She plays like a cripple
(b) She has bad manners
(c) Her clothes are torn
(d) She is stupid

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

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

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

8. What does Louise arrange in a bowl?
(a) Candles
(b) Flowers
(c) Peaches
(d) Apples

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

10. How does Billie Jo feel now about her mother's death?
(a) Bitter
(b) At peace
(c) Emotionless
(d) Deeply grieved

11. At what event is Billie Jo unable to play the piano because her hands hurt?
(a) Graduation
(b) Sunday church services
(c) A dance recital
(d) Arley's wedding anniversary

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

13. What do the ranchers collect in the spring to feed their cows?
(a) Thistle
(b) Ragweed
(c) Soybeans
(d) Dandelions

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

15. What does the passenger leave Billie Jo when he goes?
(a) Money
(b) Food
(c) Bible
(d) A picture of his family

Short Answer Questions

1. What realization does Billie Jo come to while on the train?

2. What do Billie Jo and Daddy encounter on the way to a funeral?

3. What do Daddy and Billie Jo keep from the two boxes of Ma's things?

4. What amazing discovery is made in Oklahoma during this time?

5. Which of the following does the piano not represent for Billie Jo?

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