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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?
(a) 75.
(b) 150.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

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) Millions.
(d) Thousands.

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

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

5. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

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

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

8. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?
(a) $4.
(b) $5.
(c) $3.
(d) $10.

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

10. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?
(a) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(b) Gallup, New Mexico.
(c) Los Angeles, California.
(d) Phoenix, Arizona.

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

12. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?
(a) 25 cents.
(b) 10 cents.
(c) 50 cents.
(d) 5 cents.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?

3. What term refers to the sharp, nasal tone of the Okie dialect?

4. What was the first major town in New Mexico crossed by the Okies as they headed west?

5. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

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