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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 old was Rosalene Long when her family left Stuart, Oklahoma?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.

2. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?
(a) "Sunny Cal."
(b) "Okie Song."
(c) "Westward Ho."
(d) "Cally-Ho."

3. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?
(a) Sacramento Valley.
(b) Antelope Valley.
(c) Death Valley.
(d) San Joaquin Valley.

4. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1929.

5. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?
(a) Longhorn.
(b) Amarillo.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Shamrock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

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

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

4. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?

5. What danger was in the air created by the wind in the dust storms?

(see the answer key)

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