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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. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?
(a) Orchards.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Free hunting.
(d) Livestock.

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

3. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many hours a day?
(a) 20.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

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

5. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?
(a) Gallup, New Mexico.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

3. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

4. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?

5. The trip from the Dust Bowl to California was nearly how many miles?

(see the answer key)

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