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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 arrives at the school compliments of the government?
(a) Surplus food
(b) New books
(c) Art supplies
(d) A school bus
2. What do Billie Jo and the passenger have in common?
(a) The need to escape the dust
(b) Bad home lives
(c) Fear of being alone
(d) The same birth date
3. What would Billie Jo like to see when she looks in the mirror?
(a) A different color of eyes
(b) Longer hair
(c) Traces of Ma
(d) Smaller ears
4. Who does Billie Jo have a crush on?
(a) Mad Dog
(b) Arlen
(c) Evan
(d) Jerome
5. What does the sheriff give to Miss Freeland for the children?
(a) Clothes
(b) Sugar
(c) Crayons
(d) Books
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Billie Jo go in the middle of the night?
2. What do Daddy and Billie Jo keep from the two boxes of Ma's things?
3. Where does Aunt Ellis live?
4. What item is not made for this year's Christmas dinner?
5. Of what disease does Pete Guyton, the produce man, die?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Billie Jo's cautious optimism where Louise is concerned.
2. How does Billie Jo assign human characteristics to her piano?
3. How did Billie Jo's time away change the relationship between her and her father?
4. For what things is Billie Jo thankful on this Thanksgiving?
5. How does fire seem to be an ever-present threat in Billie Jo's life?
6. What news does Mad Dog come to deliver to Billie Jo?
7. What does Billie Jo think about the dinosaur bones that are found in Oklahoma?
8. How do the children and the itinerant family interact with each other?
9. 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?
10. Who are the unexpected tenants of the schoolhouse for a couple weeks?
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