Black Sunday Quiz

1. Why did the dust storms start?

• They kicked the Native American off of the land.

• They built too many towns and houses when they settled on the prairie.

• Settlers got free or inexpensive land to move to the Great Plains.

• They over-farmed the land and damaged the environment.

The Dust Bowl took place when?

• The 1980s
• The 1930s
• The 1830s
• The 1950s

The farmers ripped out the native prairie grasses and planted what crop?

• Wheat

• Cotton

• Peanuts

• Watermelon

A lot of people died of what during the Dust Bowl?

• Typhoid
• Influenza
• Dysentary
• Dust Pneumonia 

What caused the Dust Bowl?

• Winds

• Humans

• Tearing apart the plains

• Drought

• All of the above

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The storm on Black Sunday was described as...

• a massive, black cloud

• a breezy day

• a violent thunderstorm

• a hot day

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People destroyed_________ to build and create towns, farms, and houses.

• the plains

• farmland

• animals

• nothing

Author Lauren Tarshis portrays the Southern Plains between 1910 and 1930 as

• A scorched and drought-ridden.

• B wild and empty.

• C changing but healthy.

• D poverty-stricken and struggling.

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The section “Dreams Turned to Dust” explains

• how farmers changed their practices to avoid more dust storms.

• why the U.S. government forced Native Americans to leave the Southern Plains.

• how the prairie looked when Native Americans lived there.

• how and why farmers on the Southern Plains struggled during the 1930s.

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. Consider the photos and captions at the top of pages 6 and 7. The photos are likely placed side by side to

• contrast the Native Americans’ relationship with nature with the settlers’ relationship with nature.

• show that the settlers’ crops flourished.

• emphasize how extreme the weather was on the Southern Plains.

• portray the prairie as large and windy.

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