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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who amongst the Okies suffered the most according to the author?
(a) The women.
(b) The men.
(c) The children.
(d) The elderly.

2. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Dry.
(c) Tomato.
(d) Wet.

3. What did the headlines scream in California in Chapter Four?
(a) California was sinking.
(b) Okies were diseased.
(c) Okies were invading.
(d) The West was Won.

4. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1941.

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

6. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
(a) Alexander Welsh.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) John Steinbeck.

7. Many cruel farmers would pour what on surplus food or burn it rather than give it to the starving Okies?
(a) Water.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Oil.
(d) Alcohol.

8. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Eastern.

9. What division of the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?
(a) The Farm Equity Association.
(b) Department of Farm Security.
(c) The Farm Security Administration.
(d) Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

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

11. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

12. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?
(a) Los Angeles, California.
(b) Gallup, New Mexico.
(c) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) Santa Fe, New Mexico.

13. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?
(a) By towns.
(b) By highways.
(c) By streams.
(d) By churches.

14. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1942.

15. When there was enough rain, what crops did the Okies in the Panhandle grow?
(a) Tomatoes and corn.
(b) Cotton and tobacco.
(c) Wheat and rice.
(d) Corn and wheat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?

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

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

4. What man gave hope to the suffering Okie children in the end of Chapter Four?

5. Where was the man from who claimed in Chapter Two: Mother Road, "All you could hear was 'Going to Californ-I-A!'"?

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