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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to many of the Okies who defended their honor against prejudice?
(a) They were hung.
(b) They were jailed.
(c) They were exiled.
(d) They were disinherited.

2. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1932.

3. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?
(a) Squirrels.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Jackrabbits.
(d) Coyote.

4. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?
(a) In the back.
(b) Outside.
(c) On the floor.
(d) By the girls.

5. What was the official name of the Weedpatch Camp?
(a) Agriculture Emergency Camp.
(b) Arvin Federal Camp.
(c) Weedpatch Federal Camp.
(d) F.D.R. Camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?

2. What is one of the insults described in the text which were used against Okie children?

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

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

5. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stereotypes were the Okies identified by? What happened to Okies who tried to defend themselves?

2. How does Jerry Stanley describe the Oklahoma Panhandle farmers of the 1930s?

3. Where did the Okie children face some hope in the end of Chapter 4: "Okies, Go Home!"?

4. What dangers did the Okies face in the Black Mountains? What followed that?

5. Where did the Okie families camp on their journey west? What food did they eat?

6. What made things worse for the Okie farmers in 1931?

7. What did the Oklahoma Panhandle look like by 1936? What change took place at that time?

8. What did the Okies believe about California? How did they envision it there?

9. Where was the geographical region known as the Dust Bowl? What did the dust do to the farms?

10. What did the influx of farm workers do to the agricultural economy when they arrived?

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