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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three: Dead Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From 1930 through 1940, the number of dust bowl farmers declined by how many?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 100,000.

2. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?
(a) Hooker, OK.
(b) Tuscon, OK.
(c) Goodwell, OK.
(d) Beaver, OK.

3. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?
(a) Bread.
(b) Water.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Soup.

4. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

5. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?

2. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?

3. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?

4. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?

5. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?

(see the answer key)

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