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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven: Something to Watch.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Okie children refer to the dust storms they'd escaped from when telling about them in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) Red storms.
(b) Awful nights.
(c) Terror winds.
(d) Black clouds.

2. Who helped Leo Hart build the Weedpatch School, piece by piece?
(a) The Army Reserve.
(b) The Peace Corps.
(c) The students.
(d) The federal agents.

3. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids science and sewing so they could make more attractive and better fitting clothes for themselves?
(a) Mark Allen White.
(b) Edna Gildner.
(c) James Harris.
(d) Rose Gilger.

4. What disease had Leo Hart contracted during his military service?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Gangrene.
(d) Tuberculosis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?

2. Who was hired as a music teacher and when he received a check for a year of services, he donated it back to the school?

3. One obstacle facing Mr. Hart was the fact that many of the Okie children were what?

4. Who showed his total support for Weedpatch School by enrolling his own children there?

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?

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