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

2. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?
(a) Horse stalls.
(b) Horse nostrils.
(c) Chicken coops.
(d) Cow's noses.

3. What half of Kansas was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Western.
(d) Southern.

4. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?
(a) The Masters.
(b) The Smiths.
(c) The Andersons.
(d) The Rosses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When had the Great Depression begun?

2. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?

3. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?

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

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

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