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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 is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

2. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?

3. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?

4. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?

5. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What stereotypes were the Okies identified by? What happened to Okies who tried to defend themselves?

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

6. Describe the Weedpatch Camp. Where was it located?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe the disease and health problems which the Okies suffered following their migration west. What food did the Okies survive on? How did this cause health issues?

Essay Topic 3

How was discrimination against Okie children more difficult than against their parents? What stereotypes followed the Okies? How were they segregated from the greater community?

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