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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

2. The trip from the Dust Bowl could take families anywhere from three weeks to how long?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Two years.

3. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Texas.
(d) Arizona.

4. Where was the man from who claimed in Chapter Two: Mother Road, "All you could hear was 'Going to Californ-I-A!'"?
(a) Camden, OK.
(b) Porum, OK.
(c) Oklahoma City, OK.
(d) Prairieville, OK.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?

2. How many farm labor camps for the Okies were built by the Department of Agriculture during the Dust Bowl period?

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

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

5. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?

(see the answer key)

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