View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. To what city is Mad Dog going?
(a) Amarillo
(b) Dallas
(c) Waco
(d) Lubbock

6. What does Billie Jo see along the tracks?
(a) Hobos
(b) Dogs
(c) Cattle
(d) Migrants

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

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

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

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

11. How does Billie Jo view Louise's role in her life?
(a) Sarcastically
(b) Openly
(c) Skeptically
(d) Cautiously

12. What are the spots on Daddy's face?
(a) Age spots
(b) Sun spots
(c) Cancer
(d) Blemishes

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

14. What does Billie Jo place over her nose to prevent breathing in the dust while she's in bed?
(a) Wet cloth
(b) Scarf
(c) Hat
(d) Hanky

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ma saving the dimes?

2. Who does Billie Jo have a crush on?

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

4. What does Billie Jo think about as she sits in front of Ma's piano?

5. What does Doc Rice tell Billie Jo to do with her hands?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 407 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample