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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. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?
(a) By streams.
(b) By churches.
(c) By towns.
(d) By highways.

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

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

4. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Chicken sheds.
(b) Cardboard.
(c) Tires.
(d) Clay.

5. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?
(a) Tulsa, OK.
(b) Prairieville, OK.
(c) Oklahoma City, OK.
(d) Foss, OK.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?

2. What was Route 66 referred to by the Okies?

3. What division of the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

4. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

5. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

(see the answer key)

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