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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five: Mr. Hart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?
(a) Shantilands.
(b) Okievilles.
(c) Slumlands.
(d) Okieshanties.

2. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?
(a) 25 miles.
(b) 40 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

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

4. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1939.

5. How old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?
(a) Three.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the man from who claimed in Chapter Two: Mother Road, "All you could hear was 'Going to Californ-I-A!'"?

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

3. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?

4. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

5. What half of Kansas was a part of the Dust Bowl?

(see the answer key)

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