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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 city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?
(a) Sacramento, CA.
(b) San Francisco, CA.
(c) Eureka, CA.
(d) Delano, CA.

2. The trip from the Dust Bowl could take families anywhere from three weeks to how long?
(a) One year.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.

3. In 1935, the federal government formed what service to coordinate relief activities in the Dust Bowl?
(a) Roosevelt Relief Service.
(b) Oklahoma Relief Service.
(c) Drought Relief Service.
(d) Federal Relief Service.

4. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?
(a) Corn bread.
(b) Squirel.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Potatoes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The cost of a family to stay at the Weedpatch Camp was how much per week?

3. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?

4. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?

5. What man gave hope to the suffering Okie children in the end of Chapter Four?

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