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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Billie Jo test the difference between snow and dust?
(a) She mixes it with water
(b) She shovels the walk
(c) She makes a snow angel
(d) She makes a snowball
2. What does Billie Jo tell Louise that Billie Jo has like her mother?
(a) Wiry hair
(b) Tiny ears
(c) Full lips
(d) Piano hands
3. After Mad Dog's performance, Billie Jo knows that he ________________________.
(a) Will be coming home soon
(b) Will be changing careers
(c) Is master of his own future
(d) Will never return to this town
4. Which of the following do the children not bring for the live-in family?
(a) Clothes
(b) Candy
(c) Food
(d) Toys
5. With whom does Billie Jo want to leave town?
(a) Miss Freeland
(b) The live-in family
(c) The Tyler family
(d) Mad Dog
6. Which of the following does the piano not represent for Billie Jo?
(a) Comfort
(b) Success
(c) Ma
(d) Acceptance
7. Of what disease does Pete Guyton, the produce man, die?
(a) Kidney failure
(b) Heart attack
(c) Dust Pneumonia
(d) Cancer
8. What does the passenger ask Billie Jo for?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Food
(c) Clothes
(d) Money
9. What amazing discovery is made in Oklahoma during this time?
(a) Cave paintings
(b) Dinosaur bones
(c) Geysers
(d) Volcanoes
10. What does Louise arrange in a bowl?
(a) Candles
(b) Flowers
(c) Apples
(d) Peaches
11. What realization does Billie Jo come to while on the train?
(a) She wants to move to Amarillo
(b) She has left her father alone
(c) She wants to go to Aunt Ellis' house
(d) She misses her father
12. What is found on the church steps?
(a) Flowers
(b) Used clothes
(c) A baby
(d) A food basket
13. What happens when Billie Jo moves around in her bed?
(a) It sends up the dust
(b) She falls to the floor
(c) The mattress shifts
(d) The springs creak
14. Where does Billie Jo go in the middle of the night?
(a) Miss Freeland's house
(b) A train headed west
(c) Amarillo
(d) Aunt Ellis' house
15. To what city is Mad Dog going?
(a) Lubbock
(b) Waco
(c) Dallas
(d) Amarillo
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Billie Jo call from the train station?
2. What does the sheriff give to Miss Freeland for the children?
3. How does Billie Jo describe her train trip?
4. Where do people in town go to listen to Mad Dog's radio performance?
5. Who is James Kingsbury?
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