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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. The trip from the Dust Bowl could take families anywhere from three weeks to how long?

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

3. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?

4. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?

5. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effects of the Great Depression on the farmers of the Oklahoma Panhandle. What impact did banking and stocks have on the farmers?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the lives of the Okies in the Okievilles versus their situation in the Weedpatch and other federally funded camps. How much did it cost a family to stay at a migrant camp? What was life on the camp like?

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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