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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 what California towns were farmhands needed to harvest potatoes according to rumors after the Okies arrived?
(a) Wasco and Shafter.
(b) Bakersfield and Sonoma.
(c) Eureka and Arcata.
(d) Sacramento and Lamont.

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

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

4. Where were Okies allowed to sit in movie theaters during their discrimination in California?
(a) The back row.
(b) The front row.
(c) The balcony.
(d) The basement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?

2. What often raced before the dust storms, warning the Okies they were on their way?

3. More than how many Americans were left homeless due to the Dust Bowl?

4. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the Okie families camp on their journey west? What food did they eat?

2. How did the region of the Dust Bowl change from 1930 to 1940? What hardships did farmers face?

3. What did the influx of farm workers do to the agricultural economy when they arrived?

4. How did the Okies travel west? What was their principle means of transportation?

5. What dangers did the Okies face in the Black Mountains? What followed that?

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

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

8. What was the Mother Road? What dangers did it hold?

9. What stereotypes were the Okies identified by? What happened to Okies who tried to defend themselves?

10. Where did many families head once they arrived in California? What cities were looking for farmhands?

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