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

2. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?
(a) Wasco and Shafter.
(b) Bakersfield and Sonoma.
(c) Arvin and Lamont.
(d) Sacramento and Arvin.

3. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1934.

4. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?
(a) "Cally-Ho."
(b) "Westward Ho."
(c) "Okie Song."
(d) "Sunny Cal."

5. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?
(a) Wet.
(b) Tomato.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Dry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?

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

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