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

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

3. Of what disease does Pete Guyton, the produce man, die?
(a) Kidney failure
(b) Heart attack
(c) Cancer
(d) Dust Pneumonia

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

5. What item is not made for this year's Christmas dinner?
(a) Cranberry sauce
(b) Lemon pie
(c) Roast turkey
(d) Glazed ham

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

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

8. Who shares the train car with Billie Jo?
(a) A newlywed couple
(b) A single mother
(c) A priest
(d) A dirty man

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

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

11. Where do people in town go to listen to Mad Dog's radio performance?
(a) Church
(b) The hardware store
(c) The VFW hall
(d) The school

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

13. How did Daddy meet Louise?
(a) She worked at the bank
(b) She was Daddy's teacher in night school
(c) She worked at the grocer's
(d) She worked at the phone company

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Billie Jo test the difference between snow and dust?

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

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

4. Who is Louise?

5. What is found on the church steps?

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