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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. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

2. What was the first major town in New Mexico crossed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Santa Fe
(b) Albuquerque.
(c) Roswell.
(d) Tucumcari.

3. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?
(a) Drove prices up.
(b) Drove wages up.
(c) Drove wages down.
(d) Drove prices down.

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

5. What town did the Okies first cross through in California?
(a) Needles.
(b) Whitney.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Berkeley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

2. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?

3. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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