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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city does Billie Jo get off the train?
(a) Flagstaff
(b) Tempe
(c) Tucson
(d) Phoenix

2. With whom does Billie Jo want to leave town?
(a) Miss Freeland
(b) The live-in family
(c) The Tyler family
(d) Mad Dog

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

4. What does Billie Jo have some trepidation about looking at?
(a) The new baby
(b) Her father
(c) The cemetery
(d) The piano

5. What arrives at the school compliments of the government?
(a) A school bus
(b) Art supplies
(c) New books
(d) Surplus food

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

7. Where does Daddy decide to go?
(a) Oregon
(b) California
(c) Church
(d) Night school

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

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

10. Where is the talent contest held?
(a) The church hall
(b) The VFW hall
(c) The Palace
(d) The school auditorium

11. After Mad Dog's performance, Billie Jo knows that he ________________________.
(a) Will be changing careers
(b) Is master of his own future
(c) Will be coming home soon
(d) Will never return to this town

12. Billie Jo feels _____________ in the presence of her father.
(a) Happy
(b) Alone
(c) Nothing
(d) Sad

13. Who is Louise?
(a) Doc Rice's nurse
(b) Daddy's lady friend
(c) Billie Jo's aunt
(d) The new phone operator in town

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billie Jo's father have on his face?

2. How does Billie Jo feel now about her mother's death?

3. The sheriff catches some men producing _________________ down by the river.

4. What would Billie Jo like to see when she looks in the mirror?

5. Who is Haydon P. Nye?

(see the answer keys)

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