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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Gangrene.
(c) Syphillis.
(d) Dysentery.

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

3. How many families a week were losing their farms to the banks in the Panhandle in 1932?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 200.

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

5. What would people sleep with on their faces to protect themselves from the dust?
(a) Face masks.
(b) Wet rags.
(c) Blankets.
(d) Pillow cases.

6. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?
(a) Drove prices up.
(b) Drove prices down.
(c) Drove wages up.
(d) Drove wages down.

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

8. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many hours a day?
(a) 16.
(b) 20.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

9. How old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?
(a) Three.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

10. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Longhorn.
(c) Shamrock.
(d) Amarillo.

11. Californians claimed that the Okies were taking what from them during their influx?
(a) Money.
(b) Homes.
(c) Regulations.
(d) Jobs.

12. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?
(a) Eureka, CA.
(b) San Francisco, CA.
(c) Sacramento, CA.
(d) Delano, CA.

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

14. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?
(a) By streams.
(b) By churches.
(c) By highways.
(d) By towns.

15. When had the Great Depression begun?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1929.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the official name of the Weedpatch Camp?

2. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

3. Who amongst the Okies suffered the most according to the author?

4. What were Okies identified with by stereotype?

5. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?

(see the answer keys)

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