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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. Today most of Route 66 is what?
(a) Closed.
(b) Urbanized.
(c) Renovated.
(d) Under water.

2. Where was the man from who claimed in Chapter Two: Mother Road, "All you could hear was 'Going to Californ-I-A!'"?
(a) Camden, OK.
(b) Prairieville, OK.
(c) Oklahoma City, OK.
(d) Porum, OK.

3. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?
(a) Death Valley.
(b) Sacramento Valley.
(c) Antelope Valley.
(d) San Joaquin Valley.

4. In what California towns were farmhands needed to harvest potatoes according to rumors after the Okies arrived?
(a) Eureka and Arcata.
(b) Bakersfield and Sonoma.
(c) Wasco and Shafter.
(d) Sacramento and Lamont.

5. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?

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

4. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

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

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