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

2. Californians claimed that the Okies were taking what from them during their influx?
(a) Jobs.
(b) Money.
(c) Regulations.
(d) Homes.

3. Where was the man from who claimed in Chapter Two: Mother Road, "All you could hear was 'Going to Californ-I-A!'"?
(a) Camden, OK.
(b) Oklahoma City, OK.
(c) Porum, OK.
(d) Prairieville, OK.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

2. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

3. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?

4. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many hours a day?

5. The trip from the Dust Bowl to California was nearly how many miles?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the arrival of the Okies relate to immigration issues faced by Americans today?

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

3. How did the dust get into the houses of the farmers of the Dust Bowl? How did people protect themselves?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Jerry Stanley describe the Oklahoma Panhandle farmers of the 1930s?

9. When did the great migration west begin? Who traveled this route?

10. Where did the Okies form communities after arriving in California? What did they eat there?

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