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Out of the Dust
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How much rain fell in Hope in a Drizzle? | quarter of an inch |
| WHat did Billie Jo secretly watch her mother doing during the light rainfall? | naked in the rain |
| WHat did Billie Jo's mother do when Billie Jo asked what she thought of having five babies all at once like Elzire Dionne in Canada? | cried |
| Where does Billie Jo say that she would like to walk to one day like the boys who are leaving their homes? | California |
| What was the initial cause of the accident that hurt Billie Jo and her mother? | Daddy put kerosene next to stove |
| How were Billie Jo's hands hurt during the accident? | burned when beating flames |
| Who did Doc Rice tend to first when he arrived after the accident? | Ma |
| What was the only real thing in Billie Jo's nightmare after the accident? | hands exceptionally damaged |
| What does Billie Jo say that her mother smells like lying under the sheet tent? | scorched meat |
| What did Billie Jo's father do with the money he found in the house after the accident? | bought drinks |
| WHat did Billie Jo do to make it worse for her mother while her father was in Guymon? | attempted to give water |
| How did Billie Jo's mother die? | giving birth to son |
| Why didn't Billie Jo's Aunt Ellis take the newborn baby back to Lubbock with her | he died |
| WHat does Billie Jo hear the women saying about her after her mother's death? | Billie Jo's fault |
| Why does Billie Jo sit alone behind Arley Wanderdale's house? | to be hidden |
| What advice does President Roosevelt give to the farmers in Roots? | plant trees |
| What are the empty spaces Billie Jo and her father are trying to fill? | Ma |
| Why is Billie Jo's father digging a hole in their yard? | the pond Ma said to build - apologizing |
| Why does Billie Jo say she will never be able to forgive her father for as long as she lives? | put pail of kerosene on the stove |
| When Billie Jo hears about Kilauea, what does the volcano remind her of? | a dust storm |
| In Boxess, what does Billie Jo talk about that she keeps in her closet? | two boxes with gatherings of life |
| What did Mrs. Brown's cereus plant do at midnight on Saturday night and at dawn on Sunday? | opened at midnight, wilted and died |
| What does Miss Freeland say the world needed from America right after World War I? | wheat |
| How big does Billie Jo say the sorrow is that is upon wheat farmers like her father? | Texas |
| what were the circumstances of Billie Jo Kelby's birth? | born at home, came too fast |
| why was the heroin named Billie Jo? | dad wanted a boy |
| What are Mr. Noble and Mr. Romney arguing about in Rabbit Battles? | who could kill the most |
| in what way does Billie Jo lose Livie Killian? | Livie Killian moves to California |
| who did Arley Wanderdale ask to play at the Palace before he asked Billie Jo? | Mad Dog |
| How does Billie Jo get her mother's permission to play the piano at the Palace? | corners her in the kitchen |
| What does Billie Jo say that playing piano can be in On Stage? | heaven |
| where does the mine collected at the ball in Birthday for F.D.R. go? | Warm Springs Foundation |
| what did Billie Jo's mother donate to people in need? | food |
| why did Billie Jo think she had to be so vigilant about obey at Mr. Hardly's store? | cheats customers |
| what did Billie Jo do when it was discovered that Mr. Hardly had given her four extra cents in charge? | gave it back |
| what would Billie Jo's mother have done if Billie Jo had taken a gift from Mr. Hardly? | thrown a fit |
| where did the wind storm take place in fifty miles south of home? | amarillo |
| why does Billie Jo's family set the table with plates upside down, gasses bottom up, and napkins folded over the silverware? | to prevent dust from getting in food |
| what does Billie Jo's father mean when he says, "The potatoes are peppered plenty,tonight, Polly?" | lot of dust |
| what happened in Breaking Drought after seventy days? | a litte rain |
| about what is billie jo dazzled in the poem of that name? | Ma playing piano |
| what happens to Billie jo's father when he watches her mother play the piao? | loves it |
| when did billie Jo's mother first teach her to play the piano? | fifth birthday |
| what does Bilie Jo billie jo's mother say is the main reason that billie jo's father still believes in rain? | spring approaching and a farmer |
| why won't Billie jo's mother allow her to play for sunny of sunny side? | missing school |
| what did billie jo's mother say when told that Billie Jo scored at the top of the eighth grade at her school on an achievement test? | I knew you could |
| what is the main event that happens in fields of flashing light? | dust storm |
| for what reason does Billie Jo think that she and the other students should get bonus points on their six-weeks achievement test? | during a dust storm |
| what money is the Kelby family going to get in time for the baby's coming? | bank |
| what bad news did the county agent bring in Beat Wheat? | 1/4 wheat lost |
| who is joe de la flor? | neighbor |
| what is the major dispute between billie jo's mother in give up on wheat? | who's the farmer |
| what opera does billie jo realize she has never heard of in what i don't know? | madame butterfly |
| why are the two apple trees in billie jo's yard still alive? | ma's stubborn care |
| what does Billie Jo's father say he remembers about world war I in france? | poppies on the dead |
| what will happen to the apples on the trees in a couple months? | ready for baby |
| what was wrong with the rain that came in dust and rain? | washed away soil and wheat |
| how much wheat does billie jo think her father will get harvested per acre of land? | five bushels |
| how does arley pay billie jo for her piano playing? | dimes |
| why did billie jo's father take a job with wireless power? | good at digging |
| what did the rain do to the sidewalks in town during almost rain? | got damp |
| who is the only person who talks about Billie Jo's hands now? | Arley Wanderdale |
| what made the grass, wheat, cattle, rabbits, and billie jo's father happy in real snow? | snow |
| what doesn't mad dog craddock do that pleases billie jo in dance revue? | talk about her hands |
| why was mad dog given that nickname at age two? | he bit everything |
| what was the purpose of the art exhibit in the basement of the courthouse? | raise money for the library |
| what would be enough for billie jo to hear now from her mother about the state tests? | ma saying "i knew you could" |
| why doesn't billie jo make cranberry sauce for christmas dinner the year her mother dies? | ma never showed her how |
| why did the county agent shoot joe de la flor's cows? | can't afford to feed and sell them |
| what will joe de la flor gather to feed his remaining cows int eh spring? | thistle |
| why doesn't billie jo go to school in first rain? | love the rain |
| what could hay don b. nye see when he first came to oklahoma? | grass, wild horses, wolves roaming |
| what did billie jo see jim martin doing at the crystal hotel following the rainfall mixed with dust | scraping up mud that had dried to crust |
| what two things does billie jo notice that she anther father both do the same? | rub eyes and wipe milk from lip |
| how does billie jo figure her father gets the sound of him instead of tailing? | song he sings |
| what did billie Jo's mother do to fit Billie Jo's father | made herself over |
| where was the dance held that billie Jo and her father attended? | Legion Hall |
| what did the dance raise thirty-three dollars for? | infantile paralysis |
| what did the government, the bakery, and some local dairy farmers do for the children at the school> | a filling meal |
| who moved into billie jo's school classroom? | a family |
| why did the children bring the fixings for soup to school? | share with the guests |
| what did they dress the new baby wear in birth? | her brother's feed-sack nightgown |
| which way did the family head when they left billie jo's school? | west |
| what happened to the sugar the sheriff roberston found at the still on the cimarron river? | baked dessert |
| why is billie jo practicing piano again in dreams? | contest at Palace Theater |
| what did billie jo win the talent show competition at the palace? | $1 |
| what does billie jo especially not want people to say when she plays the piano? | billie jo kelby plays like a cripple |
| what is no good in the poem of the tame? | her playing |
| what did billie jo have to check about the snow that fell in snow? | it wasn't dust |
| what does billie jo think is her father's reason for wanting to attend night school? | female companionship |
| why does calm hardly miss pete guymon in dust pneumonia? | teased each other |
| after all of the trauma of the dust storm what does billie jo do at the end of the poem of that name? | turned dishes upside down |
| what is the broken promise in the poem of that name | it didn't rain in her neighborhood |
| who could make billie jo less eager to leave home? | ma |
| what happened to hay don parley nye's widow? | dust pneumonia |
| whois the boy billie jo thinks of in heartsick? | mad dog |
| what marks does billie jo's father have on him in skin? | skin cancer |
| why does billie jo say that she should steer clear of mad dog craddock? | he's quiet |
| what subset do people not alk about to Billie Jo's face? | fire |
| what is in the letter that aunt ellis sent to billie jo's father? | an invitation to live with her |
| why can't billie jo remember the names of the migrant workers who have gone out to california? | so many leaving |
| whose funeral did billie jo and her father set out of? | grandma lucas |
| what wouldn't start at the end of blankets of black? | truck |
| what kind of job was mad dog hoping to get in amrillo? | singer on radio |
| who wound up in a kind of freak show in ontario? | quadrouplets |
| what does billie jo's father put on the shelf above the piano besides her mother's book of poetry and her aunt's invitaiion | paperwork for not paying |
| what did miss reel and do when billie jo played the piano at t=graduation? | cry |
| what started filling up when the rain poured down? | pond |
| what did billie jo's father do after it rained ad he got the tractor started? | idled towards the field |
| who is singing in his saddle since the rain came? | jo de al flor |
| why can't billie jo work for the ccc? | too young and wrong sex |
| what does everybody in town doing at the jose city hardware and furniture company on a sundry afternoon? | mad dog craddock's performance on WDA |
| what did harley madden find at the church one sunday | a baby |
| where did billie jo find the dimes her mother had saved form the money she earned playing piano? | envelope in box of franklin's nighties |
| what does billie jo's father say when she proposes that they go to see the dinosaur site? | its best to let the dead rest |
| what does billie jo liken the piano to in the dream? | that she has a connection to her mom |
| who is the major reason the tbillie jo decides to leave home | her father would leave her behind |
| what direction does billie travel in when she leaves home | west |
| how does billie jo feel after two days on the train | stiff and sore |
| what did the man on the train take when he left billie jo? | biscuits |
| what did billie jo think she would do with the picture that the man on the train left behind? | send it to his wife |
| who did billie jo call when she got off the train in Flagstaff? | mr. hardly |
| what did Billie Jo decide wasn't any better, just different? | getting away |
| what did billie jo call her father when he met her at the train station | daddy |
| what does billie jo's father promise to do in Met? | to call Doc Rice |
| what does doc rice tell billie jo to do about her hands? | use them |
| what does billie jo's father do that is out of the ordinary when louise comes to dinner?c | cleaned kitchen |
| what did billie jo do even though she didn't intend to? | liked her |
| what is the only thing billie jo hopes louise doesn't do? | crowd her out |
| in not everywhere, where does billie jo not want Louise to go with her and her father? | beaver river |
| what does billie jo like best about louise> | she doesn't say what billie jo should do |
| what is holding its own in november dust? | the pond |
| what are the pop pie doing in thanksgiving list? | set to bloom on ma's grave |
| why does billie jo think she is what she is | the dust |
| how did louise and billie jo's father meet? | her father's teacher in night school |
| how did billie jo's father let her other know he intended to marry louise? | he and Louise walked to ma's grave to tell his intentions |
| what was louise' betrothal gift to billie jo's father? | a second mule |
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