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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were Okies allowed to sit in movie theaters during their discrimination in California?
(a) The back row.
(b) The balcony.
(c) The basement.
(d) The front row.

2. Who was President of the United States from 1933 to 1945?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

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

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

5. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?
(a) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Gallup, New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?

2. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?

3. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?

4. How did Horace Ray Conley describe the sky during the dust storms?

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

(see the answer key)

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