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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Hundreds of thousands.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Millions.

3. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. Where was it rumored among the Okies that grape-pickers were needed when they arrived in California?
(a) Eureka.
(b) Sonoma.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Bakersfield.

5. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?
(a) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(b) Kingman, Arizona.
(c) Anderson, Arizona.
(d) Whitney, California.

6. Who amongst the Okies suffered the most according to the author?
(a) The women.
(b) The children.
(c) The men.
(d) The elderly.

7. Where were Okies allowed to sit in movie theaters during their discrimination in California?
(a) The balcony.
(b) The front row.
(c) The back row.
(d) The basement.

8. How many flat tires did the Masters family have in their first 50 miles headed west?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

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

10. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?
(a) Arvin and Lamont.
(b) Sacramento and Arvin.
(c) Bakersfield and Sonoma.
(d) Wasco and Shafter.

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

12. What is one of the insults described in the text which were used against Okie children?
(a) They were Germans.
(b) They were intoxicated.
(c) They were illegal immigrants.
(d) They were sub-human.

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

14. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?
(a) "Westward Ho."
(b) "Okie Song."
(c) "Cally-Ho."
(d) "Sunny Cal."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?

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

3. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

4. What would people sleep with on their faces to protect themselves from the dust?

5. Who was President of the United States from 1933 to 1945?

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