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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What realization does Billie Jo come to while on the train?
(a) She misses her father
(b) She wants to move to Amarillo
(c) She wants to go to Aunt Ellis' house
(d) She has left her father alone

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

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

5. What does Billie Jo finally realize about her father?
(a) He never loved her
(b) She is like him in a good way
(c) He is a major disappointment
(d) She is the light of his life

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

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

8. 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 swollen joints
(d) Because of the spots on his face

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

10. At what event is Billie Jo unable to play the piano because her hands hurt?
(a) Graduation
(b) Arley's wedding anniversary
(c) Sunday church services
(d) A dance recital

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the passenger take from Billie Jo when he leaves?

2. Billie Jo feels _____________ in the presence of her father.

3. What do the ranchers collect in the spring to feed their cows?

4. What does Billie Jo think her father is looking for when he looks at her?

5. Which of the following does not catch on fire in the town?

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