Out of the Dust - Final review

The conflict between Billie Jo and her mother is that

• Billie Jo wants to date Mad Dog Craddock.

• Billie Jo does not do well in school.

• Billie Jo wants to take her piano playing "on the road."

• Billie Jo sneaks out at night.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Mr. Hardly gave Billie Jo 4 cents too much, so she

• bought sheet music with it.

• took it back to the store.

• bought flour for daddy's birthday cake.

• put it away for her college education.

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

In the poem Rules of Dining, the phrase exposing neat circles,/round comments/on what life would be like without dust... is an example of what form of figurative language?

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• mood

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

In the poem Give Up on Wheat, Polly and Bayard argue about...(more than one answer!)

• the apple trees.

• money.

• putting in a pond.

• letting Billie Jo play at the Palace Theater

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

The lines, I stand under the trees/and let the petals/fall into my hair/a blizzard/of sweet smelling flowers... is an example of a

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomotopoeia

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

When Billie Jo plays piano with Arley and his friends "on the road," she feels

• guilty.

• homesick.

• a sense of freedom.

• uncomfortable.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What was Ma's reaction upon hearing of the birth of the Dionne quintuplets?

• She laughed

• She was in awe

• She did not believe it

• She wept

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

The two similes in the poem Wild Boy of the Road are

• He wasn't more than sixteen/thin as a fence rail

• He was walking as fast as he could

• Daddy didn't feel much like laughing

• And hope rises daily, like sap in a stem

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which line is a metaphor?

• Raising the pail as she poured the kerosene

• Screaming as she ran to the porch door

• Suddenly Ma was a column of fire

• Ma got burned bd

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

Following the accident, what devours the leaves, stalks, apples, and everything else in sight?

• Beetles

• Wasps

• Ants

• Grasshoppers

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10