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

2. By 1940, how many people had moved out of the Plains states due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 1.5 million.
(c) 2.5 million.
(d) .5 million.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?

2. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?

3. When had the Great Depression begun?

4. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?

5. The cost of a family to stay at the Weedpatch Camp was how much per week?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did the Okie children face some hope in the end of Chapter 4: "Okies, Go Home!"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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