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

2. How old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Six.

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

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

5. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?
(a) Oklahoma City, OK.
(b) Tulsa, OK.
(c) Prairieville, OK.
(d) Foss, OK.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?

4. What would people sleep with on their faces to protect themselves from the dust?

5. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?

(see the answer key)

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