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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. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?
(a) McKinley Mountain.
(b) Double Mountain.
(c) Mount Lyell.
(d) Mount Whitney.

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

3. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

4. Where was it rumored among the Okies that grape-pickers were needed when they arrived in California?
(a) Eureka.
(b) Bakersfield.
(c) Sonoma.
(d) Sacramento.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?

2. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?

3. What would people sleep with on their faces to protect themselves from the dust?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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