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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?

2. What happened to many of the Okies who defended their honor against prejudice?

3. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

4. What was the first major town in New Mexico crossed by the Okies as they headed west?

5. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did the Federal Government do to help the Okies? When?

7. How did the Okies travel through the Mojave Desert? Why?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the idealism the Okies felt toward California reflects similar images that immigrants see America as today. How does this idealistic image evolve?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the region of the Tehachapi Mountains and the San Joaquin Valley. What cities did the Okies head to once arriving in California? What did they find there?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the rising hostility toward the Okies of Kern County following Leo Hart's appointment as superintendent. What were "Burn Brigades" and how were they organized?

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