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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. How many farm labor camps for the Okies were built by the Department of Agriculture during the Dust Bowl period?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

2. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?
(a) Drove wages down.
(b) Drove prices down.
(c) Drove wages up.
(d) Drove prices up.

3. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?
(a) Death Valley.
(b) Sacramento Valley.
(c) Antelope Valley.
(d) San Joaquin Valley.

4. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?
(a) New York.
(b) Canada.
(c) Oregon.
(d) California.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?

2. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

3. What condition was caused by severe damage to the lungs by the inhalation of dust?

4. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?

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

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