Dust Bowl
What are TWO causes of the dust bowl?
Flat land / drought / high temperatures
Who is the narrator?
Billie Jo
Why is Billie Jo named Billie Jo?
Daddy wanted a boy
What economic disaster occurred during this time?
The Great Depression
What does the PIANO symbolize?
It represents Billie Jo's mom / Billie Jo's passion for life
Name 2 states effected by the dust.
Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, Kansas
What are Ma and Daddy's real names?
Pol and Bayard
What makes Billie Jo's spirits at the beginning of the book?
playing the piano
What crop did farmers keep growing during the beginning of the Dust Bowl? Hint: it was what Billie Jo's dad kept hoping to grow, and what Ma said they should "give up on."
Wheat
What does the POND symbolize?
Daddy's love for Ma
What insect flocked together and destroyed Ma's apple trees?
Grasshoppers
Who does Billie Jo have a crush on?
Mad Dog
Where do many people begin walking to in search of a better future?
California / West
Who created the New Deal?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
What do the APPLE TREES symbolize?
Ma's love / Ma's life / Ma / hope
What were the dust storms called?
Black blizzards
Who is Billie Jo's teacher?
Miss Freeland or Arley Wanderdale
What does Billie Jo name her baby brother, when she speaks up for Pa? Why?
Franklin, after the President
What is one name for the young people who rode on trains in search of work during the Great Depression?
Hobo
What does it mean when the grasshoppers destroy the apple trees?
Hope is destroyed / Ma is gone
Name at least 2 ways that the New Deal suggested repairing land after the Dust Bowl
Plant trees / find new ways to farm / plant varying crops / find work elsewhere to buy new seed
Who is Billie Jo's friend who moves away to get out of the dust at the beginning of the book?
Livie Killian
Name two things that the ma and daddy give to the "Wild Boy of the Road."
milk, biscuits, a haircut, a bath, a change of clothes, work, Daddy's old overalls
What specific financial event led to the Great Depression?
Wall Street / Stock Market crashed
What does the phrase "out of the dust" mean literally AND figuratively to Billie Jo?
Literally - getting physically out of the dust
Figuratively - overcoming obstacles including dust