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

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

3. How many flat tires did the Masters family have in their first 50 miles headed west?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

4. What town did the Okies first cross through in California?
(a) Whitney.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Needles.
(d) Berkeley.

5. When had the Great Depression begun?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

2. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

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

4. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?

5. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?

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