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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. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. From 1930 through 1940, the number of dust bowl farmers declined by how many?

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

(see the answer key)

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