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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Okies identified with by stereotype?
(a) Ratty clothing.
(b) Expensive clothing.
(c) Nice cars.
(d) Affected dialects.

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

3. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?
(a) Orchards.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Free hunting.
(d) Livestock.

4. What condition was caused by severe damage to the lungs by the inhalation of dust?
(a) Emphesema.
(b) Red pneumonia.
(c) Dust pneumonia.
(d) Tuberculosis.

5. 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.

6. What often raced before the dust storms, warning the Okies they were on their way?
(a) Coyotes and rabbits.
(b) Horses.
(c) Rabbits and birds.
(d) Birds and horses.

7. What division of the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?
(a) Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
(b) Department of Farm Security.
(c) The Farm Security Administration.
(d) The Farm Equity Association.

8. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?
(a) 40 miles.
(b) 100 miles.
(c) 50 miles.
(d) 25 miles.

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

10. What was the first major town in New Mexico crossed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Tucumcari.
(b) Santa Fe
(c) Albuquerque.
(d) Roswell.

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

12. What happened to many of the Okies who defended their honor against prejudice?
(a) They were jailed.
(b) They were hung.
(c) They were disinherited.
(d) They were exiled.

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

14. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?
(a) Los Angeles, California.
(b) Gallup, New Mexico.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Santa Fe, New Mexico.

15. What is another term which referred to the dust storms during the Dust Bowl?
(a) Black Storms.
(b) Black Blizzards.
(c) Red Storms.
(d) Terror Blizzards.

Short Answer Questions

1. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?

2. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?

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

4. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?

5. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?

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