Out of the Dust Review

What is the Kelby family looking forward to at the beginning of the story?

• a new piano

• a baby

• the rain

• a new truck

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is the Setting of Out of the Dust?

• Oklahoma Panhandle 1934-1935

• West Texas 1960-1970

• South Oklahoma, 1935-1936

• Central Oklahoma, 1934-1935

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CCSS.RL.6.5

Which of the following is NOT true about mom's death?

• Ma and baby were buried together

• Doc Rice was not there

• The baby dies before Aunt Ellis arrived

• Grasshoppers ate all of her apples

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

Why did a family briefly move into the classroom?

• They were Miss Freelands family

• Their house burned down

• They were migrants and a baby was coming soon

• They wanted to meet Billie Jo

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

What does Billie Jo suspect is the real reason her father wants to go to night school?

• He wants to qualify for government roads

• He wants and excuse to be away in the evenings

• He wants to meet lady friends

• He wants to drink at the tavern afterwards

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CCSS.RL.6.1

What happened when Billie Jo and her father tried to attend a funeral?

• They were caught in a dust storm and their own home was buried in dust

• they ran into a swarm of grasshoppers

• Their truck broke down and they had to walk home

• It rained all the way home

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

The Climax of this story occurs when?

• Billie Jo accidentally throws a pail of kerosene on her mother

• Billie Jo is so full of anger she decides to stow away in a boxcar on a train

• Billie Jo's Father decides to build a pond

• The heavy rain forces all of the apples to fall from mother's trees

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

"Sorrow climbs up our front steps," is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

"Spilling from gutters, gushing from gullies," is an example of?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What type of genre is Out of the Dust?

• Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.W.6.9B