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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In 1935, the federal government formed what service to coordinate relief activities in the Dust Bowl?
(a) Federal Relief Service.
(b) Roosevelt Relief Service.
(c) Oklahoma Relief Service.
(d) Drought Relief Service.

6. What term refers to a small printed notice, advertisement, or announcement, usually for distribution by hand?
(a) Notebook.
(b) Handbill.
(c) Daily.
(d) Manifesto.

7. How did Horace Ray Conley describe the sky during the dust storms?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Gray.

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

9. The trip from the Dust Bowl could take families anywhere from three weeks to how long?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Six months.

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

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

12. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?
(a) Tuscon, OK.
(b) Beaver, OK.
(c) Hooker, OK.
(d) Goodwell, OK.

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 official name of the Weedpatch Camp?
(a) F.D.R. Camp.
(b) Arvin Federal Camp.
(c) Agriculture Emergency Camp.
(d) Weedpatch Federal Camp.

15. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Tires.
(b) Clay.
(c) Chicken sheds.
(d) Cardboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What danger was in the air created by the wind in the dust storms?

2. What was Route 66 referred to by the Okies?

3. How many families a week were losing their farms to the banks in the Panhandle in 1932?

4. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many hours a day?

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