Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Jerry Stanley
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Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Jerry Stanley
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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. Where was the man from who claimed in Chapter Two: Mother Road, "All you could hear was 'Going to Californ-I-A!'"?
(a) Oklahoma City, OK.
(b) Camden, OK.
(c) Porum, OK.
(d) Prairieville, OK.

2. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?
(a) Bakersfield and Sonoma.
(b) Wasco and Shafter.
(c) Sacramento and Arvin.
(d) Arvin and Lamont.

3. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?
(a) Longhorn.
(b) Amarillo.
(c) Shamrock.
(d) Dallas.

4. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1934.

5. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?
(a) Cow's noses.
(b) Horse stalls.
(c) Chicken coops.
(d) Horse nostrils.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?

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

3. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

4. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

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

(see the answer key)

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