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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Western.
(c) Northern.
(d) Southern.

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

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

5. Who established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Harold L. Ickes.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Californians claimed that the Okies were taking what from them during their influx?

2. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?

3. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?

4. What is one of the insults described in the text which were used against Okie children?

5. In what California towns were farmhands needed to harvest potatoes according to rumors after the Okies arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Oklahoma Panhandle look like by 1936? What change took place at that time?

2. What were the Okies' impressions of Tehachapi Grade? What was the view looking down?

3. What physical dangers existed due to the dust storms in the Dust Bowl? What sickness arose?

4. Where was the geographical region known as the Dust Bowl? What did the dust do to the farms?

5. What costs did the Californians believe the Okies were driving up? What discrimination did the Okies face in the west?

6. What did the Okies believe about California? How did they envision it there?

7. What diseases did the Okies suffer from in California? Why?

8. How did the Okies travel through the Mojave Desert? Why?

9. What signs did the Okies begin discovering after their arrival in California?

10. Describe the Weedpatch Camp. Where was it located?

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