Out of the Dust Summer 1934

The purpose of writing Ma is "ripe as a melon" is to explain

• she looks green from her morning sickness

• she is just about ready to have the baby

• the shape of her body is very round

• that she is craving watermelon

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is revealed about Billie Jo's character when she begins beating out the flames with her bare hands in "The Accident"?

• She hesitates when under pressure

• she doesn't lke to take responsibility for her actions.

• She doesn't put herself first when it comes to her family

• She is unaware of how to handle emergency situations

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.W.5.9A

In the poem "Nightmare", Billie Jo dreams of many terrible hings. What was the author's purpose in including this poem?

• To foreshadow all of the horrible things to come.

• To show how dramatic Billie Jo's dreams can be.

• To tie all the bits and pieces of the novel together.

• To show just how much the accident will affect Billie Jo.

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CCSS.RL.5.2

Daddy most likely spends the family's emergency money "Drinking" because..

• His is having trouble handling the emotions he is feeling concerning the accident.

• He didn't know it was the family's emergency money.

• He know he can always make more money.

• To punish Billie Jo

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.W.5.9A

Why does the author include the grasshopper invasion?

• to show readers that the dust is not the only environmental hardships affecting people.

• To mirror Ma's death from the accident with that of the trees' death from the grasshoppers.

• to show readers that despite Billie Jo's own injuries, she will stop at nothing to try to save the trees.

• all of the above.

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CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.2

What happens when Aunt Ellis arrives?

• She takes Billie Jo's brother to raise him

• She interrupts Ma's funeral

• She insists that Bill Jo come live with her

• She realizes the baby is dead and leaves

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CCSS.RL.5.1

What does Bill Jo name her brother? Why?

• Bayard after their dad

• Paul after their mother

• Franklin after the president

• Billy because that was the boy name Daddy had chosen

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CCSS.RL.5.1

What is the one thing Billie Jo can't seem to forgive her father for?

• spending the evening in Guymon when Ma was suffereing

• leaving the pail of kerosene by the stove

• taking Ma's money

• digging the hole

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.W.5.9A

Billie Jo refers to her father as a stranger because...

• she feels like he is acting like a different person

• she realizes sh doesn't know him well

• she and her father are both changing without Ma around

• she and her father decide it is best if they go their separate ways.

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.6

Who does Billie Jo blame for the accident?

• Her dad

• her mom

• herself

• both A and C

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.6