Geography 417

Practice Quiz 10

California for Educators

The following quiz is provided for you to check your understanding of the material you will be responsible for knowing later in the semester.

Directions: Consult your class notes, your reading assignments or on-line exercises to find the information you need to complete this quiz. Similar questions will appear on the in-class version of this quiz, but it will be worth a greater portion of your semester-end grade. Click on the radio button that corresponds to the letter next to the best answer to the question.

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Question	Answer	Letter	Questions and Answer Options
1. Preview	Answer 1	1.	Pipe City in Oakland, where homeless people lived during the Depression would have been called (a):
		a.	Roosevelt's Shanty Villa
		b.	Hooverville
		c.	D-Town
		d.	Okie-burg
2. Preview	Answer 2	2.	Which of the following authors became famous for his Califonia based novels?
		a.	Langston Hughes
		b.	John Steinbeck
		c.	Jack London
		d.	Dorthea Lange
3. Preview	Answer 3	3.	Who was the charismatic evangelical preacher of the Depression Era who was "kidnapped", only to revealed to be having an illicit affair?
		a.	Sister Aimee
		b.	Douglas Fairbanks
		c.	Dr. Townshend
		d.	Merle Haggard
4.Preview	Answer 4	4.	Women in this industry fought with some success for shorter work weeks and minimum wages during the 1930s
		a.	Canneries
		b.	Shoe and Textile manufacturing
		c.	School teachers
		d.	Shipbuilding
5.Preview	Answer 5	5.	This fellow ran for Governor during the Depression and promoted socialistic solutions to the state's economic woes:
		a.	John Steinbeck
		b.	Upton Sinclair
		c.	Jack Mooney
		d.	Henry Otis
6. Review	Answer 6	6	The wobblies were particularly interested in unionizing what types of laborers?
		a.	Steel and metal workers
		b.	Government and information (newspaper) workers
		c.	women and minorities
		d.	farm workers and other unskilled laborers
7. Review	Answer 7	7.	The first great agricultural boom in California following statehood involved what crop?
		a.	Corn (Maize)
		b.	Grapes- wine and table
		c.	Citrus
		d.	Wheat
8. Review	Answer 8	8	This newspaper owner was hotly anti-union, and his city was likewise poorly unionized:
		a.	Reuf
		b.	Otis
		c.	Johnson
		d.	Mulholland
9. Review	Answer 9	9.	The railroad took an active roll in the promotion of California citrus. Why?
		a.	Lemon growers shipped their goods by rail
		b.	The rail companies were selling California as a destination for tourists
		c.	The rail companies owned land they hoped to sell to those moving to California.
		d.	All of these are true.
10. Review	Answer 10	10.	What was the importance of the Valencia orange to California's citrus industry?
		a.	It was rot resistant
		b.	It was resistant to the bugs that killed Naval oranges
		c.	It ripened during the summer, allowing year round harvesting.
		d.	All of these

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Geography 417

Practice Quiz 10

California for Educators

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