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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?
(a) Outside.
(b) On the floor.
(c) By the girls.
(d) In the back.

2. What is another term which referred to the dust storms during the Dust Bowl?
(a) Red Storms.
(b) Black Storms.
(c) Terror Blizzards.
(d) Black Blizzards.

3. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

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

5. In what California towns were farmhands needed to harvest potatoes according to rumors after the Okies arrived?
(a) Bakersfield and Sonoma.
(b) Wasco and Shafter.
(c) Sacramento and Lamont.
(d) Eureka and Arcata.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?

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

3. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?

4. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?

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

(see the answer key)

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