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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1929.

2. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?
(a) Sacramento and Arvin.
(b) Wasco and Shafter.
(c) Arvin and Lamont.
(d) Bakersfield and Sonoma.

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

4. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?
(a) McKinley Mountain.
(b) Mount Whitney.
(c) Double Mountain.
(d) Mount Lyell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

2. Frequently the wind in the Dust Bowl blew more than how many miles per hour?

3. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?

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

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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