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

2. How many farm labor camps for the Okies were built by the Department of Agriculture during the Dust Bowl period?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

3. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Cardboard.
(b) Tires.
(c) Chicken sheds.
(d) Clay.

4. When had the Great Depression begun?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1919.

5. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Gangrene.
(c) Syphillis.
(d) Cholera.

Short Answer Questions

1. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?

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

3. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?

4. What was the official name of the Weedpatch Camp?

5. Where was it rumored among the Okies that grape-pickers were needed when they arrived in California?

(see the answer key)

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