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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 city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?
(a) Sacramento, CA.
(b) San Francisco, CA.
(c) Eureka, CA.
(d) Delano, CA.

2. What often raced before the dust storms, warning the Okies they were on their way?
(a) Birds and horses.
(b) Rabbits and birds.
(c) Coyotes and rabbits.
(d) Horses.

3. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?
(a) Oklahoma City.
(b) Tulsa.
(c) Prairieville.
(d) Boise City.

4. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1938.

5. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?
(a) 10 cents.
(b) 5 cents.
(c) 25 cents.
(d) 50 cents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?

2. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?

3. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?

4. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?

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

(see the answer key)

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