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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Route 66 referred to by the Okies?
(a) Bear Road.
(b) Mother Road.
(c) Coyote Road.
(d) Devil Road.

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

3. What did the headlines scream in California in Chapter Four?
(a) Okies were invading.
(b) Okies were diseased.
(c) California was sinking.
(d) The West was Won.

4. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?
(a) Chicken coops.
(b) Cow's noses.
(c) Horse nostrils.
(d) Horse stalls.

5. What town did the Okies first cross through in California?
(a) Needles.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Whitney.

6. By 1940, how many people had moved out of the Plains states due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 2.5 million.
(c) 1.5 million.
(d) .5 million.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What half of Kansas was a part of the Dust Bowl?

2. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?

3. The migrant workers were increasing the state and county costs for what during the Dust Bowl period in California?

4. Who amongst the Okies suffered the most according to the author?

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

(see the answer keys)

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