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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. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From 1930 through 1940, the number of dust bowl farmers declined by how many?

2. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?

3. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?

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

5. What did the headlines scream in California in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the Okies of the Dust Bowl know when the storms were coming? What precautions had to be taken?

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

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

6. What made things worse for the Okie farmers in 1931?

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

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

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

10. How were the Okies living in the federal camps treated by the community? Why?

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