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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 Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?
(a) Squirel.
(b) Corn bread.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Bacon.

2. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Texas.
(d) New Mexico.

3. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?
(a) Bakersfield and Sonoma.
(b) Sacramento and Arvin.
(c) Wasco and Shafter.
(d) Arvin and Lamont.

4. What was the official name of the Weedpatch Camp?
(a) Arvin Federal Camp.
(b) Weedpatch Federal Camp.
(c) Agriculture Emergency Camp.
(d) F.D.R. Camp.

5. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?
(a) Whitney, California.
(b) Anderson, Arizona.
(c) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(d) Kingman, Arizona.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the flatlands of the Panhandle, people could see the dust storms coming from up to how far away?

2. What division of the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

3. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?

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

5. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

(see the answer key)

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