Out of the Dust p.125-189

There is a contest at the Palace Theatre and what is the prize?

• $100 for 1st place and $50 for 2nd place

• A basket of food to take home to their family

• $3 for 1st place and $2 for 2nd place

• The winner gets to be on the radio

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What does Billie Jo want most? There can be more than one choice.

• her father and her to talk again

• to get more money for her family

• to prove she can still do it (playing piano)

• her piano playing to be great again

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What is being compared in this simile? "Course they never will, not with my hands all scarred up, looking like the earth itself."

• piano playing and scars on her hands

• her hands and the earth texture

• music and the earth

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How did Billie Jo do at the contest?

• her nerves got to her and she didn't play well

• she got 3rd place

• she got 1st place

• she got 2nd place

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How did Billie Jo's hands feel after she played at the contest?

• Her hands screamed with pain for days

• She felt like they were getting better

• They hurt a little, but it wasn't that bad

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Arley asked if Billie Jo could play at his show. What was the outcome?

• Billie Jo didn't play at the show.

• Billie Jo played at the show and actually played well.

• Billie Jo didn't play because her father didn't want her to.

• Billie Jo did play at the show and played like a cripple. Her playing is no good anymore.

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What has Billie Jo's father decided to start doing?

• planting more corn

• spending more time digging

• going to night school

• planting more apple trees

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After Billie Jo made it home from walking in the dust storm; she discovered that her father had gone out looking for her. Billie Jo hollered out looking for him. "The wind took my voice and busted it into a thousand pieces, so small the sound blew out over Ma and Franklin's grave, thinner than a sigh." What figurative language was used in the quote taken from the book?

• Personification-something that is not human is given human charactertistics

• Simile-makes a comparison between two different things using like or as

• Metaphor-a comparison between things without using like or as

• Onomatopoeia-the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent

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What is being compared in the simile, "his eyes as red as raw meat,"?

• meat and raw

• eyes and red

• red and meat

• eyes and raw meat

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What is meant when the book said that Billie Jo was so eager to go?

• Billie Jo wants to go perform piano at the next contest.

• Billie Jo wants to go find the family that was living in the school.

• Billie Jo wants to go get out, away from the dust.

• Billie Jo wants to go to night school with her dad.

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