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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two: Mother Road.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?
(a) Oregon.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Canada.

2. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?
(a) Phoenix, Arizona.
(b) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(c) Gallup, New Mexico.
(d) Los Angeles, California.

3. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?
(a) Cow's noses.
(b) Horse nostrils.
(c) Chicken coops.
(d) Horse stalls.

4. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1932.

5. The trip from the Dust Bowl could take families anywhere from three weeks to how long?
(a) One year.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Today most of Route 66 is what?

2. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?

3. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?

4. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?

5. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?

(see the answer key)

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