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

2. When there was enough rain, what crops did the Okies in the Panhandle grow?
(a) Tomatoes and corn.
(b) Cotton and tobacco.
(c) Corn and wheat.
(d) Wheat and rice.

3. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?
(a) Amarillo.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Shamrock.
(d) Longhorn.

4. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?
(a) Oklahoma City.
(b) Prairieville.
(c) Tulsa.
(d) Boise City.

5. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?
(a) By highways.
(b) By streams.
(c) By towns.
(d) By churches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?

2. The trip from the Dust Bowl could take families anywhere from three weeks to how long?

3. Where was the man from who claimed in Chapter Two: Mother Road, "All you could hear was 'Going to Californ-I-A!'"?

4. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?

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

(see the answer key)

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