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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Millions.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Hundreds.

2. Where were Okies allowed to sit in movie theaters during their discrimination in California?
(a) The front row.
(b) The balcony.
(c) The basement.
(d) The back row.

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

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

5. According to the ideas of the Okies, it was big news in California if someone died before the age of what?
(a) 100.
(b) 75.
(c) 200.
(d) 150.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?

2. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?

3. In 1935, the federal government formed what service to coordinate relief activities in the Dust Bowl?

4. What condition was caused by severe damage to the lungs by the inhalation of dust?

5. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?

(see the answer key)

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