Out of the Dust Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Out of the Dust Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 119 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is James Kingsbury?
(a) A Canadian photographer
(b) Secretary of State
(c) A Congressman
(d) The new Methodist minister

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

3. What happens when Billie Jo moves around in her bed?
(a) It sends up the dust
(b) The springs creak
(c) She falls to the floor
(d) The mattress shifts

4. Which of the following does not catch on fire in the town?
(a) The school
(b) The church
(c) Cars
(d) Railroad cars

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

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

7. What does the government do to help the farmers?
(a) Lends money
(b) Relocates them
(c) Spreads water from a plane
(d) Hires workers

8. Why does Billie Jo tell her father to go to the doctor?
(a) Because of his weight loss
(b) Because of the spots on his face
(c) Because of swollen joints
(d) Because of his depression

9. What does Joe De La Flor need to divest himself of?
(a) A herd of cows
(b) A beat up truck
(c) A bad debt
(d) An old car

10. Which of the following is not something Billie Jo feels bitter about?
(a) Her father's indifference
(b) Mad Dog's success
(c) The dust
(d) Ma's death

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

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

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

14. What is Billie Jo's main concern right now?
(a) Taking music lessons
(b) Learning to drive
(c) Not getting pushed out of Daddy's life
(d) Getting a college fund started

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the thoughts of her mother prompt Billie Jo to do?

2. Who begins to leave the area in large groups?

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

4. What does Billie Jo not want people to say about her?

5. What does Daddy's pond represent to Billie Jo?

(see the answer keys)

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