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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two: Mother Road.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?
(a) California.
(b) Oregon.
(c) New York.
(d) Canada.

2. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?
(a) Foss, OK.
(b) Prairieville, OK.
(c) Oklahoma City, OK.
(d) Tulsa, OK.

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. What condition was caused by severe damage to the lungs by the inhalation of dust?
(a) Dust pneumonia.
(b) Red pneumonia.
(c) Emphesema.
(d) Tuberculosis.

5. What was the first major town in New Mexico crossed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Albuquerque.
(b) Roswell.
(c) Santa Fe
(d) Tucumcari.

Short Answer Questions

1. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?

2. How many flat tires did the Masters family have in their first 50 miles headed west?

3. What often raced before the dust storms, warning the Okies they were on their way?

4. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?

5. Where did the roads begin climbing into the Black Mountains as the Okies traveled west?

(see the answer key)

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