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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?
(a) Sacramento Valley.
(b) San Joaquin Valley.
(c) Death Valley.
(d) Antelope Valley.

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

3. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Wet.
(c) Dry.
(d) Tomato.

4. How old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.

5. More than how many Americans were left homeless due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) 1,000,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 3,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?

2. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

3. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?

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

5. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?

(see the answer key)

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