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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?
(a) Amarillo.
(b) Longhorn.
(c) Shamrock.
(d) Dallas.

2. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

3. What condition was caused by severe damage to the lungs by the inhalation of dust?
(a) Emphesema.
(b) Dust pneumonia.
(c) Red pneumonia.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. Who amongst the Okies suffered the most according to the author?
(a) The children.
(b) The men.
(c) The elderly.
(d) The women.

5. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?
(a) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Los Angeles, California.
(d) Gallup, New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

2. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?

3. Today most of Route 66 is what?

4. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?

5. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?

(see the answer key)

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