View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who amongst the Okies suffered the most according to the author?
(a) The men.
(b) The women.
(c) The elderly.
(d) The children.

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

3. Who established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Harold L. Ickes.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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

5. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?
(a) Trees.
(b) Animals.
(c) White people.
(d) Plants.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 201 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample