WorksheetsOut of the Dust Spring 1935
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 48mins
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Class
Date
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Name:
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1A. Read this excerpt from page 156:
I hate fire.
Hate it.
But the entire Oklahoma Panhandle is so dry,
Everything too ready to ignite.
Last week
The school caught fire.
Damage was light,
On account of it being caught early.
Most kids joked about it next day,
But it terrified me.
Part A: What does the word ignite mean as used in the text above?
a)
A) to dislike greatly
b)
B) getting caught
c)
C) go up in flames
d)
D) kidding around
3.
1 Part B: Which detail best supports Part A?
a)
A) “most kids joked about it next day”
b)
B) “I hate fire. Hate it”
c)
C) “on account of it being caught”
d)
D) “the school caught fire”
4.
2 Part A: What is the author’s best purpose or meaning for including page 174’s Let Down during Spring 1935 of Out of the Dust?
a)
A) To give insight into Billie Jo’s fears, frustrations, emotions, and feelings
b)
B) To explain why Billie Jo is unfortunate
c)
C) To show the reader that Billie Jo is very concerned about her father’s health
d)
D) To prove Billie Jo’s resilience
5.
2. Part B: Which two details below best supports Part A?
a)
C) “I don’t know, I let them down”
b)
F) “and now I think we’re both turning to dust”
c)
A) “Miss Freeland started to cry”
d)
B) “if my father ever went to Doc Rice to do something about the spots on his skin”
e)
D) “But my father isn’t going to Doc Rice”
6.
3 Part A: What is the best theme of pages 184-186’s Baby Out of the Dust: Spring 1935?
a)
A) It’s hard to commit to a change.
b)
B) Family comes first.
c)
C) Everything will work out for the best.
d)
D) No one knows what the future holds.
7.
3 Part B: Which two details best supports Part A?
a)
B) “She had kept those dimes to send me to Panhandle A and M. To study music. No point now.” Page 186
b)
E) “Imagining a song for my little brother, buried in Ma’s arms on a knoll overlooking the banks of the Beaver, imagining a song for the Lindbergh baby stiff in the woods, imagining a song for this new baby who would not be my father’s son.” Page 186
c)
A) “Then he looked at me sorry as dust.” Page 185
d)
C) “he pulled out a box with the rest of the clothes Ma had made for our new baby and told me to drop them by the church if I wanted” Page 185
e)
D) “I asked my father if we could adopt it” Page 185
8.
4 Part A: What is the main idea of Out of the Dust: Spring 1935?
a)
A) Billie Jo hopes her daddy will go to the doctor.
b)
B) Billie Jo wishes the wheat would grow so her daddy would get better.
c)
C) Billie Jo is becoming a young lady, and she feels nostalgic about her late Ma.
d)
D) Billie Jo wants very much to learn how to play the piano again.
9.
4 Part B: What two details below best supports Part A above?
a)
D) “If Ma was here, she would come up and listen” Page 153
b)
E) I sat at her piano a long time after I got back from church, imagining a song for my little brother, buried in Ma’s arms” Page 186
c)
A) “But my father isn’t going to Doc Rice” Page 175
d)
B) “he idled toward the freshened fields, certain the grass would grow again” Page 179
e)
C) “The government is lending us money to keep the farm going, money to buy seed, feed loans for our cow” Page 172
10.
5 Part A: How is the text of pages 162-167’s Blankets of Black structured?
a)
A) comparing and contrasting
b)
B) problem and solution
c)
C) description
d)
D) sequential order
11.
5. Part B: What detail best supports Part A above?
a)
A) Where the text says “on the first clear day, on the second clear day, on the third clear day” it shows that it goes in sequential order.
b)
B) The scene stating “a woman opened her house to us” proves that it is problem and solution.
c)
C) The part where the text says “the wind screamed. The blowing dirt ran so thick I couldn’t see the brim of my hat” shows description.
d)
D) The line stating “a black cloud, big and silent as Montana” demonstrates comparing and contrasting.
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6. Part A: What does the figurative language phrase “It’s best to let the dead rest” mean on page 189?
a)
A) Daddy doesn’t want to disturb Ma and Franklin’s grave by digging.
b)
B) Daddy wants to let Ma and Franklin be and move on with their lives.
c)
C) Daddy doesn’t want to drive over to Joyce City to view an excavation site.
d)
D) Daddy does not show an interest in dinosaurs like Billie Jo.
13.
6. Part B: Which detail below best explains Part A?
a)
A) “He looks out the window, out across the field, toward the knoll where Ma and the baby lie” Page 189
b)
B) “I tell my father, let’s go to the site and watch the men chip away with ice picks” Page 188
c)
C) “I am thinking that a dinosaur is getting out of Joyce City a hundred million years too late” Page 188
d)
D) “a chill shoots up my spine imagining a dinosaur” Page 187
14.
7. Part A: Why did Billie Jo think “I can hardly make myself get started cleaning again”?
a)
A) She had just stripped all the gummed tape from the windows.
b)
B) Her daddy kept her busy with chores outside.
c)
C) Her hands were throbbing.
d)
D) She was busy making dinner.
15.
8. Read this excerpt from page 153:
The hard part is in spite of everything
If I had any boy court me,
It’d be Mad Dog Craddock.
But Mad Dog can have any girl.
Why would he want me?
I’m so restless.
My father asks what’s going on with me.
I storm up to my room,
Leaving him alone
Standing in the kitchen.
If Ma was here
She would come up and listen.
Part A: What does the word court mean as used above?
a)
A) meeting where legal judgments are made
b)
B) area for a ball game
c)
C) date
d)
D) a short street
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8. Part B: Which phrase below best explains what court means?
a)
A) “what’s going on”
b)
B) “I’m so restless”
c)
C) “leaving him alone”
d)
D) “but Mad Dog can have any girl”
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