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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. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?
(a) Squirel.
(b) Corn bread.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Bacon.

2. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Amarillo.
(c) Shamrock.
(d) Longhorn.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?

2. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

3. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?

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

5. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?

(see the answer key)

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