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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many families a week were losing their farms to the banks in the Panhandle in 1932?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 200.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,000.

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

4. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Texas.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) New Mexico.

5. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?
(a) Drove wages down.
(b) Drove prices up.
(c) Drove wages up.
(d) Drove prices down.

6. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Clay.
(b) Cardboard.
(c) Chicken sheds.
(d) Tires.

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

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

9. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?
(a) Coyote.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Jackrabbits.
(d) Squirrels.

10. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?
(a) Delano, CA.
(b) Eureka, CA.
(c) Sacramento, CA.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

11. By 1940, how many people had moved out of the Plains states due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) .5 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 1.5 million.
(d) 2.5 million.

12. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?
(a) 10 cents.
(b) 50 cents.
(c) 25 cents.
(d) 5 cents.

13. What was the official name of the Weedpatch Camp?
(a) Weedpatch Federal Camp.
(b) Agriculture Emergency Camp.
(c) F.D.R. Camp.
(d) Arvin Federal Camp.

14. More than how many Americans were left homeless due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 3,000,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?

2. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?

3. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?

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

5. What often raced before the dust storms, warning the Okies they were on their way?

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