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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?
(a) Slumlands.
(b) Shantilands.
(c) Okievilles.
(d) Okieshanties.

3. The cost of a family to stay at the Weedpatch Camp was how much per week?
(a) $5.
(b) $2.
(c) $3.
(d) $1.

4. What is one of the insults described in the text which were used against Okie children?
(a) They were intoxicated.
(b) They were illegal immigrants.
(c) They were sub-human.
(d) They were Germans.

5. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Southern.
(b) Northern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Western.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?

2. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

3. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?

4. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?

5. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?

(see the answer key)

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