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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. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?
(a) Drove prices up.
(b) Drove prices down.
(c) Drove wages up.
(d) Drove wages down.

2. How did Horace Ray Conley describe the sky during the dust storms?
(a) Black.
(b) Gray.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

3. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
(a) Alexander Welsh.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

4. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?
(a) Gangrene.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Syphillis.

5. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?
(a) By churches.
(b) By highways.
(c) By streams.
(d) By towns.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many flat tires did the Masters family have in their first 50 miles headed west?

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

3. Many cruel farmers would pour what on surplus food or burn it rather than give it to the starving Okies?

4. In what California towns were farmhands needed to harvest potatoes according to rumors after the Okies arrived?

5. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?

(see the answer key)

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