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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. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?
(a) Livestock.
(b) Orchards.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Free hunting.

2. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many hours a day?
(a) 20.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

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

4. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

5. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?
(a) Cow's noses.
(b) Chicken coops.
(c) Horse nostrils.
(d) Horse stalls.

Short Answer Questions

1. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?

2. How many families a week were losing their farms to the banks in the Panhandle in 1932?

3. How many flat tires did the Masters family have in their first 50 miles headed west?

4. What condition was caused by severe damage to the lungs by the inhalation of dust?

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?

(see the answer key)

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