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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. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1931.

2. How many families a week were losing their farms to the banks in the Panhandle in 1932?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 200.
(c) 500.
(d) 2,000.

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

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

5. What half of Kansas was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Western.
(b) Northern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Eastern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

2. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?

3. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?

4. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?

5. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?

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