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

2. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?
(a) The Andersons.
(b) The Rosses.
(c) The Masters.
(d) The Smiths.

3. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) Oklahoma City.
(b) Boise City.
(c) Guymon.
(d) Tulsa.

4. How did Horace Ray Conley describe the sky during the dust storms?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Gray.

5. How many flat tires did the Masters family have in their first 50 miles headed west?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the flatlands of the Panhandle, people could see the dust storms coming from up to how far away?

2. How old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?

3. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?

4. When had the Great Depression begun?

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

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