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

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

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

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

5. What does Doc Rice tell Billie Jo to do with her hands?
(a) Limit the use of them
(b) Use them
(c) Rub oil into them
(d) Wear protective gloves

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following do the children not bring for the live-in family?

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

3. To what city is Mad Dog going?

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

5. What does the passenger leave Billie Jo when he goes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Louise?

4. How does Billie Jo assign human characteristics to her piano?

5. What immediate plans to Billie Jo and Daddy make to begin healing?

6. What does Billie Jo admit to herself about her mother's death, her father's indifference toward her and her need to escape this life?

7. How does fire seem to be an ever-present threat in Billie Jo's life?

8. What news does Mad Dog come to deliver to Billie Jo?

9. How does Billie Jo block Louise's entry into a part of their lives?

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

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