Out of the Dust Study Guide Pp

Out of the Dust study guide pp. 134-169

1.  What does Billie Jo especially not want people to say when she plays the piano?

2.  What is “no good” in the poem of that name?

3.  What did Billie Jo have to check about in the snow that fell in Snow?

4.  What does Billie Jo think is her father’s reason for wanting to attend night school?

5.  Why does Calb Hardly miss Pete Guymon in Dust Pneumonia?

6.  After all of the trauma of the dust storm, what does Billie Jo do at the poem of that name?

7.  What is the “broken promise” in the poem of that name?

8.  Who could make Billie Jo less eager to leave home?

9.  What happened to Haydon Parley Nye’s widow?

10.  Who is the boy Billie Jo thinks of in Heartsick?

11.  What marks does Billie Jo’s father have on him in Skin?

12.  Why does Billie Jo say that she should steer clear of Mad Dog Craddock?

13.  What subject do people not talk about to Billie Jo’s face?

14.  What is in the letter that Aunt Ellis sent to Billie Jo’s father?

15.  Why can’t Billie Jo remember the names of the migrant workers who have gone out to California?

16.  Whose funeral did Billie Jo and her father set out for?

17.  What wouldn’t start at the end of Blankets of Black?

18.  What kind of job does Mad Dog hope to get in Amarillo?