View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Prairieville, OK.
(c) Oklahoma City, OK.
(d) Camden, OK.

2. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?
(a) Foss, OK.
(b) Prairieville, OK.
(c) Tulsa, OK.
(d) Oklahoma City, OK.

3. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?
(a) 50 cents.
(b) 10 cents.
(c) 5 cents.
(d) 25 cents.

4. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?
(a) 75.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 150.

5. In the flatlands of the Panhandle, people could see the dust storms coming from up to how far away?
(a) 40 miles.
(b) 10 miles.
(c) 20 miles.
(d) 30 miles.

6. Today most of Route 66 is what?
(a) Renovated.
(b) Urbanized.
(c) Closed.
(d) Under water.

7. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?
(a) On the floor.
(b) In the back.
(c) By the girls.
(d) Outside.

8. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Alexander Welsh.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

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

10. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

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

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

13. More than how many Americans were left homeless due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) 3,000,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

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

15. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Shamrock.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Amarillo.
(d) Longhorn.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?

3. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?

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

5. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 384 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample