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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?
(a) Animals.
(b) Trees.
(c) Plants.
(d) White people.

2. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?
(a) 150.
(b) 75.
(c) 200.
(d) 100.

3. In 1935, the federal government formed what service to coordinate relief activities in the Dust Bowl?
(a) Roosevelt Relief Service.
(b) Federal Relief Service.
(c) Drought Relief Service.
(d) Oklahoma Relief Service.

4. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?
(a) New York.
(b) Canada.
(c) California.
(d) Oregon.

5. Today most of Route 66 is what?
(a) Renovated.
(b) Urbanized.
(c) Under water.
(d) Closed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What town did the Okies first cross through in California?

2. More than how many Americans were left homeless due to the Dust Bowl?

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

4. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?

5. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?

(see the answer key)

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