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

2. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
(a) John Steinbeck.
(b) Alexander Welsh.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

3. In what year did Leo Hart meet with the teachers he had hired and the kids who would be the first students at the new Weedpatch School?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1930.

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

5. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?
(a) McKinley Mountain.
(b) Mount Whitney.
(c) Mount Lyell.
(d) Double Mountain.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the official name of the Weedpatch School?

4. Where was it rumored among the Okies that grape-pickers were needed when they arrived in California?

5. What was the official name of the Weedpatch Camp?

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