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

2. From 1930 through 1940, the number of dust bowl farmers declined by how many?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 400,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 200,000.

3. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Water.
(c) Bread.
(d) Soup.

4. 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.

5. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?
(a) Free hunting.
(b) Livestock.
(c) Orchards.
(d) Cattle.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did Horace Ray Conley describe the sky during the dust storms?

4. The trip from the Dust Bowl to California was nearly how many miles?

5. What was the first major town in New Mexico crossed by the Okies as they headed west?

(see the answer key)

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