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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. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?
(a) The Andersons.
(b) The Rosses.
(c) The Smiths.
(d) The Masters.

2. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Arkansas.

3. What half of Kansas was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Northern.

4. The cost of a family to stay at the Weedpatch Camp was how much per week?
(a) $1.
(b) $5.
(c) $3.
(d) $2.

5. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?
(a) By towns.
(b) By highways.
(c) By streams.
(d) By churches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was it rumored among the Okies that grape-pickers were needed when they arrived in California?

2. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?

3. What often raced before the dust storms, warning the Okies they were on their way?

4. From 1930 through 1940, the number of dust bowl farmers declined by how many?

5. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?

(see the answer key)

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