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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?
(a) Boise City.
(b) Prairieville.
(c) Tulsa.
(d) Oklahoma City.

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

3. Many cruel farmers would pour what on surplus food or burn it rather than give it to the starving Okies?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Oil.
(c) Water.
(d) Dirt.

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

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

6. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?
(a) Corn bread.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Squirel.
(d) Potatoes.

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

8. From 1930 through 1940, the number of dust bowl farmers declined by how many?
(a) 400,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 200,000.

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

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

11. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

12. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) Oklahoma City.
(b) Tulsa.
(c) Boise City.
(d) Guymon.

13. The trip from the Dust Bowl to California was nearly how many miles?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 3,000.

14. When had the Great Depression begun?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1932.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?

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

5. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?

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