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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Billie Jo throws the pail outside?
(a) It hits a neighbor kid
(b) It breaks a window
(c) It breaks in two
(d) It hits Ma and she is burned

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

3. In her dream what does Billie Jo find in the neighbor's house?
(a) A wall of dust
(b) Dead apple trees
(c) A statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt
(d) A piano

4. What does Daddy say uses up more water than the wheat?
(a) Doing laundry
(b) Baths
(c) Washing dishes
(d) Apple trees

5. In what state is Billie Jo born?
(a) Ohio
(b) Oregon
(c) Oklahoma
(d) Mississippi

6. What totally unexpected event occurs in Autumn 1934?
(a) Billie Jo falls in love
(b) It snows
(c) Daddy sells the farm
(d) A meteor falls in the field

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

8. How does Billie Jo have to set the table during the dust bowl era?
(a) With plastic wrap over the dishes
(b) With the plates and glasses upside down
(c) With dish towels covering the food
(d) With a plastic tablecloth

9. What does Daddy think about Ma's idea to get water to the crops?
(a) It is sure worth a try
(b) It will dry up the well
(c) It is bound to work
(d) It is idiotic

10. How does dust get into the classroom?
(a) Through the mail slot
(b) The cracks in the walls and the windows
(c) Down the chimney
(d) The skylight

11. What does Miss Freeland explain to Billie Jo's class?
(a) The case for evolution
(b) The reasons for World War I
(c) The solar system
(d) How the drought happened

12. In what war did Billie Jo's father serve?
(a) Vietnam War
(b) World War II
(c) World War I
(d) Korean War

13. Who is Arley Wanderdale?
(a) The army recruiter
(b) A seed salesman
(c) The local extension agent
(d) Billie Jo's music teacher

14. Who has been Billie Jo's best friend since first grade?
(a) Lillie
(b) Ellie
(c) Olivia
(d) Livie

15. How does Ma care for the trees?
(a) Fertilizes them every week
(b) Waters them despite the drought
(c) Doesn't do anything to them
(d) Prunes them each summer

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the neighbors talk about after Ma's funeral?

2. What helps Billie Jo escape life's problems?

3. For what fruit does Billie Jo have a fondness?

4. Why does Daddy get a different job?

5. Billie Jo says about her father that "If he had cried, his tears would have been __________ too, but he didn't cry."

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