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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six: Weedpatch School.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book was banned from Kern County, California, in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) The Great Gatsby.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) A Secret Rapture.

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

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

4. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?
(a) Tulsa.
(b) Prairieville.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) Boise City.

5. Where had Leo Hart gone to recover after his military service?
(a) California.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) Arizona.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?

2. How did Horace Ray Conley describe the sky during the dust storms?

3. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?

4. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?

5. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?

(see the answer key)

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