Out of the Dust
Name: ___________________________________________________ Date: ______________________
SUMMER 1934
Section 5: Hope in a Drizzle through Devoured
1. How much rain fell in Hope in a Drizzle?
2. What did Billie Jo secretly watch her mother doing during the light rainfall?
3. What did Billie Jo’s mother do when Bill Jo asked what she thought of having five babies all at once
like Elzire Dionne in
4. Where does Billie Jo say that she would like to walk to one day like the boys who are leaving their
homes?
5. What was the initial cause of the accident that hurt Billie Jo and her mother?
6. How were Billie Jo’s hands hurt during the accident?
7. Who did Doc Rice tend to first when he arrived after the accident?
8. What was the only real thing in Billie Jo’s nightmare after the accident?
9. What does Billie Jo say that her mother smells like lying under the sheet tent?
10. What did Billie Jo’s father do with the money he found in the house after the accident?
11. What did Billie Jo do to make it worse for her mother while her father was in Guymon?
12. How did Billie Jo’s mother die?
Section 5 Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the words in bold mean.
1. Dionne Quintuplets
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2. Daddy put a pail of kerosene next to the stove….
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3. I pushed her to the ground, desperate to save her….
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4. He bathed my burns in antiseptic.
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5. Sand chafed inside my clothes, against my skin.
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6. It whirred like a thousand engines.
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Part II: Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.
___21. quintuplets A. wore sore by rubbing
___22. kerosene B. produced an airy vibrating sound
___23. desperate C. one of five offspring born in a single birth
___24. antiseptic D. a thin oil used as a fuel
___25. chafed E. despairing; abandoning all hope
___26. whirred F. destroyer of disease-carrying microorganisms