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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many farm labor camps for the Okies were built by the Department of Agriculture during the Dust Bowl period?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

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

3. What man gave hope to the suffering Okie children in the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Andrew McCarthy.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Leo Hart.

4. Frequently the wind in the Dust Bowl blew more than how many miles per hour?
(a) 100.
(b) 25.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

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

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

7. 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.

8. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1929.

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

10. Who established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) Harold L. Ickes.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

11. The migrant workers were increasing the state and county costs for what during the Dust Bowl period in California?
(a) Police and fire attendants.
(b) Jobs.
(c) Medical care and education.
(d) City officials.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?

2. What town did the Okies first cross through in California?

3. In what California towns were farmhands needed to harvest potatoes according to rumors after the Okies arrived?

4. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?

5. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?

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