This state is nicknamed "Panhandle" because it is shaped like
a cooking pan.
What is Oklahoma?
100
Billie Jo was born in this month in the year 1920.
What is August?
100
Out of the Dust takes places in the between the years 1934 and 1935 during what season?
What is Winter?
100
Ma mistook this type of oil for water and poured it on the stove to make coffee.
What is kerosene?
200
She was burned because her husband left a pail of
kerosene beside the stove.
Who is Ma? (or Billie Jo's mother)
200
People migrated to this state in search for a better way of living.
What is California?
200
The stock market fell this year in the month of October.
What is 1929.
200
A severe weather condition characterized by strong winds and dust-filled air over an extensive area.
What is a dust storm?
200
This person is the author of Out of The Dust.
Who is Karen Hesse?
300
He has long legs and red hair like his daughter.
Who is Billie Jo?
300
Billie Jo was born in this room at her home in Oklahoma.
What is the kitchen floor?
300
This was the greatest storm of the "Dust Bowl" on 14 April 1935.
What is "Black Sunday?"
300
The name given to the lava containing crack in the earth that erupted in Hawaii.
What is a volcano?
300
Ma planted this type of fruit tree on their homeland.
What is an apple tree?
400
She came to get Franklin after Ma died.
Who is Aunt Ellis?
400
This group of children topped the whole state of Oklahoma on the state tests.
What is Billie Jo's class at school.
400
The Great Depression started in 1929 and ended in this year.
What is 1939?
400
A form of precipitation that falls from clouds in the form of ice crystals .
What is snow?
400
Mr. Noble and Mr. Romney had a going bet as to who could kill the most of this type of animal while hunting.
What is a jack rabbit?
500
She taught night school and became Pa's girlfriend.
Who is Louise.
500
Billie Jo enjoyed playing piano at this social gathering place.
What is The Palace Theatre.
500
It was in this year that Scholastic, Inc. published Out of the Dust.
What is 1997?
500
This acute infection of the lungs, brought on by exposure to too much dust might cause high fever, pain in the chest, difficulty in breathing, and coughing
What is dust pneumonia?
500
This type of plant, given the name "Night Bloomer" blooms during the night and dies before sunrise.