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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When had the Great Depression begun?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1919.

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

5. Citizens armed with clubs and what attacked the Weedpatch Camp one night, trying to frighten the Okies away in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Pitchforks.
(c) Torches.
(d) Guns.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?

3. The trip from the Dust Bowl could take families anywhere from three weeks to how long?

4. In what California towns were farmhands needed to harvest potatoes according to rumors after the Okies arrived?

5. More than how many Americans were left homeless due to the Dust Bowl?

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