Directions: Read this passage in which Billie Jo describes a rainstorm. Then answer each item.
I tangle in the dusty sheets,
cursing the grit against my skin,
swearing I’ll leave this forsaken1 place.
Like the tapping of a stranger
the rain changes everything.
gushing through gullies,2
soaking into the thirsty earth outside.
I button into my dress, slip on my sweater,
and push my way off the porch,
sticking my face into the fog,
into the moist skin of the fog.
The sound of dripping surrounds me as I
through the schoolhouse door,
I want only to stand in the rain.
2 gullies: Cuts in the land that water runs through
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. Scholastic, Inc., 1997, pp. 104–105.