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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1934,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Billie Jo cannot forgive her father for _________________________.
(a) Not buying her a new dress
(b) The pail of kerosene left by the stove
(c) Abandoning her
(d) Not loving her enough

2. What does Billie Jo do as the dust storm approaches?
(a) Watches from a big window
(b) Stuffs rugs under the doors and rags around the windows
(c) Prays
(d) Hides in her bedroom

3. What color is the dust storm that roars through the area?
(a) Black
(b) Red
(c) Grey
(d) Blue

4. What does Billie Jo see eating up the wheat crop?
(a) Beetles
(b) Locusts
(c) Grasshoppers
(d) Deer

5. What little bit of good happens at the beginning of Summer 1934?
(a) An inheritance
(b) A bank loan
(c) A drizzling rain
(d) A new car

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other children other than Billie Jo are in Billie Jo's family in the Beginning?

2. Why is Billie Jo mad at her mother?

3. How does dust get into the classroom?

4. What does Daddy do as a result of Ma's injuries?

5. The boy who stops at Billie Jo's house to work and eat is headed to __________________.

(see the answer key)

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