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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: Mr. Hart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. More than how many Americans were left homeless due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 3,000,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

2. One obstacle facing Mr. Hart was the fact that many of the Okie children were what?
(a) Spoiled.
(b) Disabled.
(c) Illiterate.
(d) Undisciplined.

3. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?
(a) $5.
(b) $10.
(c) $4.
(d) $3.

4. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?
(a) Tomato.
(b) Wet.
(c) Dry.
(d) Dirt.

5. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Cardboard.
(b) Chicken sheds.
(c) Clay.
(d) Tires.

Short Answer Questions

1. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?

2. Who was President of the United States from 1933 to 1945?

3. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?

4. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?

5. What did the Okie children refer to the dust storms they'd escaped from when telling about them in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

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