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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three: Dead Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1936.

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

3. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Alexander Welsh.

4. How many flat tires did the Masters family have in their first 50 miles headed west?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

5. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Arkansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?

2. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?

3. When there was enough rain, what crops did the Okies in the Panhandle grow?

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

5. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?

(see the answer key)

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