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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 danger was in the air created by the wind in the dust storms?
(a) Chemicals.
(b) Static electricity.
(c) Hail.
(d) Snow.

2. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?
(a) Mount Lyell.
(b) Double Mountain.
(c) McKinley Mountain.
(d) Mount Whitney.

3. Many cruel farmers would pour what on surplus food or burn it rather than give it to the starving Okies?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Water.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Oil.

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

5. Where was it rumored among the Okies that grape-pickers were needed when they arrived in California?
(a) Eureka.
(b) Bakersfield.
(c) Sonoma.
(d) Sacramento.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?

2. Where were Okies allowed to sit in movie theaters during their discrimination in California?

3. Who headed the mob which burned down an Okie migrant camp near the Kern River in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

4. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?

5. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?

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