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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. Where is the talent contest held?
(a) The Palace
(b) The school auditorium
(c) The VFW hall
(d) The church hall

2. After Mad Dog's performance, Billie Jo knows that he ________________________.
(a) Will be coming home soon
(b) Will be changing careers
(c) Will never return to this town
(d) Is master of his own future

3. Mrs. Love, the government lady, takes applications for males to work ____________ jobs.
(a) CCC
(b) IRS
(c) Trucking
(d) Construction

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

5. Who begins to leave the area in large groups?
(a) Farmers
(b) Migrant workers
(c) Retailers
(d) Road workers

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is James Kingsbury?

2. What does Billie Jo not want people to say about her?

3. What does Doc Rice tell Billie Jo to do with her hands?

4. Where do people in town go to listen to Mad Dog's radio performance?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who is Joe De La Flor and what hardship does he face regarding his cattle?

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

5. Why is the lack of cranberry sauce such a poignant lack at Christmas dinner?

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

7. With whom does Billie Jo share a train car for a short while? Explain that experience and what it teaches Billie Jo.

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

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

10. Who is Louise?

(see the answer keys)

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