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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. Many items for the Weedpatch School were donated by whom?
(a) The community.
(b) The state government.
(c) The federal government.
(d) NATO.

2. By 1940, how many people had moved out of the Plains states due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) 1.5 million.
(b) .5 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 2.5 million.

3. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northern.

4. How much money did the Weedpatch School gain from community taxes?
(a) Zero.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $5,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?

2. Today most of Route 66 is what?

3. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

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

5. Frequently the wind in the Dust Bowl blew more than how many miles per hour?

(see the answer key)

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