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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight: Our School.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would people sleep with on their faces to protect themselves from the dust?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Face masks.
(c) Wet rags.
(d) Pillow cases.

2. What did the headlines scream in California in Chapter Four?
(a) Okies were diseased.
(b) The West was Won.
(c) California was sinking.
(d) Okies were invading.

3. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1941.

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

5. Who amongst the Okies suffered the most according to the author?
(a) The children.
(b) The men.
(c) The women.
(d) The elderly.

Short Answer Questions

1. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?

2. How many families a week were losing their farms to the banks in the Panhandle in 1932?

3. The trip from the Dust Bowl to California was nearly how many miles?

4. At the Weedpatch School, often kids would miss weeks of school because their parents had what?

5. Mr. Hart leased the land next to the Weedpatch Camp for how much money?

(see the answer key)

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