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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. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?
(a) On the floor.
(b) By the girls.
(c) In the back.
(d) Outside.

2. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?
(a) Shantilands.
(b) Okievilles.
(c) Slumlands.
(d) Okieshanties.

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

4. The migrant workers were increasing the state and county costs for what during the Dust Bowl period in California?
(a) City officials.
(b) Police and fire attendants.
(c) Jobs.
(d) Medical care and education.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

3. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who suffered the most from prejudice among the Okies? Why?

4. How did the Okies make money while they were traveling west?

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

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

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

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

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