Out of the Dust P. 89-125

Why is Billie Jo grateful for Mad Dog?

• He comes over to spend some time with Billie Jo.

• He looks at her like she is someone he knows, not a motherless girl with deformed hands.

• He gets her a piano gig to earn money for her and pa.

• He takes her to the doctor so she can get medicine for her hands.

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Billie Jo was once before upset with how her mom reacted to which situation below, but now it would be enough.

• How Billie Jo cooked dinner

• How Billie Jo cleaned the house

• How Billie Jo sang

• How Billie Jo performed on the state test

What two things are being compared in this simile, "I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream."

• rain drops and tapping on a door

• rain drops and a dream

• a stranger and a dream

• rain drops and a stranger

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why doesn't Billie Jo give her fingers and hands a rest?

• Her pa tells her to keep up on the chores.

• Billie Jo likes to clean around the house to stay busy.

• Billie Jo and pa won't be able to live in the house if it isn't cleaned each day.

• Billie Jo sees the home through Ma's eyes. Ma is haunting her.

"He stares at me, maybe he is looking for Ma. He won't find her." Why?

• Billie Jo threw away her picture.

• The picture of ma got burned in the fire.

• Billie Jo looks and acts like her pa.

• Billie Jo resembles her cousin.

What is meant by this quote, "Tonight, for a little while in the bright hall folks were almost free"?

• The people were allowed to leave their homes after the long dust storm.

• Billie Jo and pa felt free because they won money at the party.

• The people were having so much fun that they felt free because they forgot about all of their worries of the dust and debt.

• Billie Jo and pa were given some food to take home so they felt free of worrying about getting food.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

In Billie Jo's classroom one morning, the students and Miss Freeland walked in to find?

• A new student

• Some skunks had came into the classroom overnight and sprayed.

• The school had caught on fire.

• A family living in their classroom

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why did Billie Jo have to go away for awhile when the baby came and why was she not ready for that family to go?

• The baby was wearing the feed-sack nightgown that was her brother's.

• Billie Jo played with the family often and would miss their company.

• The baby reminded her of her brother Franklin that died.

• Billie Jo thought that the mother in that family would be perfect for her dad.