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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Billie Jo and Daddy encounter on the way to a funeral?
(a) A black cloud of dust
(b) A train accident
(c) A rainbow
(d) Relatives having a picnic

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

3. What does Daddy do when a good rain comes following the snow?
(a) Goes to town for umbrellas
(b) Puts out more barrels and buckets
(c) Sits in the rain for hours
(d) Cleans the dust out of his tractor

4. Who does Billie Jo have a crush on?
(a) Arlen
(b) Evan
(c) Mad Dog
(d) Jerome

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has moved into the schoolhouse?

2. How does Billie Jo describe her train trip?

3. What does Daddy reveal to Billie Jo?

4. What do Daddy and Billie Jo keep from the two boxes of Ma's things?

5. Where will Billie Jo not allow Louise to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Billie Jo's cautious optimism where Louise is concerned.

2. Who is Louise?

3. Who are the unexpected tenants of the schoolhouse for a couple weeks?

4. What is the bittersweet accomplishment Billie Jo makes at school?

5. How does the lack of a mother make Billie Jo unsure of how to manage her feelings about Mad Dog?

6. How do the children and the itinerant family interact with each other?

7. Billie Jo has not taken any interest in cleaning the house until she sees someone else scrubbing hardened mud. What does this prompt Billie Jo to do and why does she feel haunted by Ma in her actions?

8. How did Billie Jo's time away change the relationship between her and her father?

9. How does Billie Jo finally come to terms with the dust and its full impact on her life?

10. What does Billie Jo think about the dinosaur bones that are found in Oklahoma?

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