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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. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?

2. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?

3. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?

4. How old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?

5. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Okies' crossing of the Black Mountains and the Mojave Desert. What dangers did the Okies face crossing these regions?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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