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

2. What is another term which referred to the dust storms during the Dust Bowl?

3. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?

4. In the flatlands of the Panhandle, people could see the dust storms coming from up to how far away?

5. In 1935, the federal government formed what service to coordinate relief activities in the Dust Bowl?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What diseases did the Okies suffer from in California? Why?

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

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

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

7. What were the Okies' impressions of Tehachapi Grade? What was the view looking down?

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

9. Where did the Okies form communities after arriving in California? What did they eat there?

10. What physical dangers existed due to the dust storms in the Dust Bowl? What sickness arose?

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

Describe the geographical region of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Where is it centered and what states are included in the region? What is the climate like?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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