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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. What division of the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?
(a) Department of Farm Security.
(b) Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
(c) The Farm Security Administration.
(d) The Farm Equity Association.

2. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

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

4. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
(a) Alexander Welsh.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) John Steinbeck.

5. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?
(a) 10 cents.
(b) 5 cents.
(c) 50 cents.
(d) 25 cents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What often raced before the dust storms, warning the Okies they were on their way?

2. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

3. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?

4. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?

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

(see the answer key)

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