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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Three: Dead Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When there was enough rain, what crops did the Okies in the Panhandle grow?
(a) Wheat and rice.
(b) Corn and wheat.
(c) Tomatoes and corn.
(d) Cotton and tobacco.

2. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) Tulsa.
(b) Boise City.
(c) Guymon.
(d) Oklahoma City.

3. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?
(a) The Rosses.
(b) The Smiths.
(c) The Andersons.
(d) The Masters.

4. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?
(a) Anderson, Arizona.
(b) Whitney, California.
(c) Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(d) Kingman, Arizona.

5. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?
(a) Gangrene.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Syphillis.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?

2. When had the Great Depression begun?

3. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?

4. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?

5. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?

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