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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When there was enough rain, what crops did the Okies in the Panhandle grow?
(a) Corn and wheat.
(b) Tomatoes and corn.
(c) Wheat and rice.
(d) Cotton and tobacco.

3. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?
(a) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(b) Anderson, Arizona.
(c) Whitney, California.
(d) Kingman, Arizona.

4. Where was the man from who claimed in Chapter Two: Mother Road, "All you could hear was 'Going to Californ-I-A!'"?
(a) Camden, OK.
(b) Oklahoma City, OK.
(c) Porum, OK.
(d) Prairieville, OK.

5. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?
(a) Drove prices up.
(b) Drove prices down.
(c) Drove wages down.
(d) Drove wages up.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?

3. Who established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933?

4. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?

5. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?

(see the answer key)

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