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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 couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?
(a) The Masters.
(b) The Rosses.
(c) The Andersons.
(d) The Smiths.

2. Who, in addition to teaching English, would teach plumbing, electric wiring, sports and aircraft mechanics at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Andrew McGivens.
(b) Lee Hanson.
(c) John Roberts.
(d) John Smithson.

3. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?
(a) $4.
(b) $3.
(c) $5.
(d) $10.

4. What was Route 66 referred to by the Okies?
(a) Devil Road.
(b) Bear Road.
(c) Coyote Road.
(d) Mother Road.

5. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?
(a) Beaver, OK.
(b) Goodwell, OK.
(c) Tuscon, OK.
(d) Hooker, OK.

Short Answer Questions

1. What man gave hope to the suffering Okie children in the end of Chapter Four?

2. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

3. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?

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

5. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?

(see the answer key)

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