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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?

2. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?

3. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?

4. The great winds of the Dust Bowl began in what year?

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many hours a day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Okies travel through the Mojave Desert? Why?

2. How did the region of the Dust Bowl change from 1930 to 1940? What hardships did farmers face?

3. What did the Federal Government do to help the Okies? When?

4. What dangers did the Okies face in the Black Mountains? What followed that?

5. Describe the Weedpatch Camp. Where was it located?

6. How did the arrival of the Okies relate to immigration issues faced by Americans today?

7. What diseases did the Okies suffer from in California? Why?

8. What did the Okies believe about California? How did they envision it there?

9. Where was the geographical region known as the Dust Bowl? What did the dust do to the farms?

10. How did the Okies of the Dust Bowl know when the storms were coming? What precautions had to be taken?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the economic impact of the Dust Bowl on America. How was agriculture affected by the loss of farmland in the Midwest? How did farmers survive?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Mother Road, and the hazards that the Okie families faced during this route. What protection did the Okies have from climate elements? What floods were encountered along the way?

Essay Topic 3

What does Jerry Stanley mean by "dry farmers" when he describes the farmers of the Oklahoma Panhandle? How did the farmers survive?

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