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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1935,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does dust get into the classroom?
(a) Down the chimney
(b) Through the mail slot
(c) The cracks in the walls and the windows
(d) The skylight

2. What crop is dying and drying up?
(a) Corn
(b) Wheat
(c) Oats
(d) Soybeans

3. Who will be singing at the dance revue?
(a) Mad Dog
(b) Livie
(c) Billie Jo
(d) Arley

4. Which of the following do the children not bring for the live-in family?
(a) Toys
(b) Candy
(c) Food
(d) Clothes

5. What hope floats in in this chapter, August 1934?
(a) The smell of rain
(b) Bank loans
(c) Higher wages
(d) Increased wheat prices

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country are the Dionne Quintuplets born?

2. What do the ranchers collect in the spring to feed their cows?

3. Where do people in town go to listen to Mad Dog's radio performance?

4. What do Daddy and Ma argue about?

5. What does President Roosevelt encourage people to plant in the dust bowl?

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