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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. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?
(a) 40 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

2. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Shamrock.
(b) Amarillo.
(c) Longhorn.
(d) Dallas.

3. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?
(a) Squirel.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Corn bread.
(d) Potatoes.

4. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?
(a) Coyote.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Squirrels.
(d) Jackrabbits.

5. How many families a week were losing their farms to the banks in the Panhandle in 1932?
(a) 500.
(b) 200.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Frequently the wind in the Dust Bowl blew more than how many miles per hour?

2. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?

3. Many cruel farmers would pour what on surplus food or burn it rather than give it to the starving Okies?

4. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?

5. What half of Kansas was a part of the Dust Bowl?

(see the answer key)

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