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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight: Our School.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Chicken sheds.
(b) Tires.
(c) Cardboard.
(d) Clay.

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

3. What did the Okie children refer to the dust storms they'd escaped from when telling about them in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) Red storms.
(b) Awful nights.
(c) Terror winds.
(d) Black clouds.

4. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?
(a) Okieshanties.
(b) Slumlands.
(c) Shantilands.
(d) Okievilles.

5. How many farm labor camps for the Okies were built by the Department of Agriculture during the Dust Bowl period?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the airplane cost which was bought and donated to the Weedpatch School?

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

3. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?

4. Frequently the wind in the Dust Bowl blew more than how many miles per hour?

5. What were Okies identified with by stereotype?

(see the answer key)

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