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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. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?
(a) Dry.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Wet.
(d) Tomato.

2. What was the first major town in New Mexico crossed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Tucumcari.
(b) Santa Fe
(c) Albuquerque.
(d) Roswell.

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

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

5. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?
(a) Okievilles.
(b) Slumlands.
(c) Shantilands.
(d) Okieshanties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What half of Kansas was a part of the Dust Bowl?

2. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

3. How many farm labor camps for the Okies were built by the Department of Agriculture during the Dust Bowl period?

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

5. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?

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