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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 average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

2. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?
(a) Foss, OK.
(b) Oklahoma City, OK.
(c) Prairieville, OK.
(d) Tulsa, OK.

3. Frequently the wind in the Dust Bowl blew more than how many miles per hour?
(a) 30.
(b) 25.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

4. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1929.

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?
(a) $5.
(b) $4.
(c) $10.
(d) $3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?

3. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?

4. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

5. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?

(see the answer key)

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