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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the sheriff give to Miss Freeland for the children?
(a) Crayons
(b) Sugar
(c) Clothes
(d) Books

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

6. What does Billie Jo think about as she sits in front of Ma's piano?
(a) Mad Dog's success
(b) Livie's laughter
(c) Ma's playing
(d) A song for babies

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

8. What is Louise's best domestic skill?
(a) Baking
(b) Sewing
(c) Cooking
(d) Canning

9. Billie Jo tells Louise that there is nothing better than __________________.
(a) Chocolate
(b) Home
(c) Butterflies
(d) Rain

10. What does Billie Jo think her father is looking for when he looks at her?
(a) Her manners
(b) Her grammar
(c) Her hygiene
(d) Traces of Ma

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

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

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

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

15. What does Billie Jo find in a box of baby clothes?
(a) Love letters
(b) Dimes Ma saved
(c) Pressed flowers in a book
(d) Old pictures

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what disease does Pete Guyton, the produce man, die?

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

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

4. Who does Billie Jo call from the train station?

5. What is the content of the letter from Aunt Ellis?

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