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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By when after the opening of the Weedpatch School had the kids helped to till the field next to the school?
(a) November.
(b) August.
(c) October.
(d) December.

2. What was the official name of the Weedpatch School?
(a) The Kern County Emergency School.
(b) The Arvin Federal Emergency School.
(c) The Weedpatch Emergency School.
(d) The F.D. Roosevelt Emergency School.

3. How many children were initially enrolled in the Weedpatch School?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 35.

4. What type of airplane did the Weedpatch School have?
(a) D-21.
(b) B-52.
(c) C-46.
(d) Albatross.

5. The hot summer before the school was to open, the Okie kids spent morning to night where?
(a) The corn fields.
(b) The cotton fields.
(c) The industry mill.
(d) The canning factory.

6. Many items for the Weedpatch School were donated by whom?
(a) The community.
(b) NATO.
(c) The state government.
(d) The federal government.

7. Walls at the Weedpatch School would collapse from what?
(a) Sleet.
(b) Rain.
(c) Hail.
(d) Wind.

8. What student at the Weedpatch School lost her father to lung disease?
(a) Christina Parker.
(b) Joyce Foster.
(c) Sarah Jane.
(d) Sally Anderson.

9. What organs had Leo Hart lost to his disease after his military service?
(a) Spleen and kidney.
(b) Lung and spleen.
(c) Lung and kidney.
(d) Appendix and spleen.

10. How much money did the Weedpatch School gain from community taxes?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $500.
(c) Zero.
(d) $1,000.

11. Citizens armed with clubs and what attacked the Weedpatch Camp one night, trying to frighten the Okies away in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Pitchforks.
(c) Guns.
(d) Torches.

12. Who showed his total support for Weedpatch School by enrolling his own children there?
(a) Andrew McWilliams.
(b) Jim McPherson.
(c) Pete Bancroft.
(d) Rose Gilger.

13. What did vandals do to the original buildings at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Set fire to them.
(b) Painted them.
(c) Flooded them.
(d) Egged them.

14. How many acres of land next to the Weedpatch Camp was Mr. Hart allowed to lease for his school?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

15. What book was banned from Kern County, California, in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) A Secret Rapture.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. Hart buy and donate to the school to help out?

2. Progress at the Weedpatch School was slow and sporadic because many of the children had little or no what?

3. By May, 1941, the students at the Weedpatch School were separated into how many main groups?

4. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids shoe cobbling so they could repair their parents' shoes?

5. How old was Leo Hart when he got in the habit of stopping by Weedpatch Camp to play ball with the Okie kids and talk to them?

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