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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. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?
(a) 25 miles.
(b) 50 miles.
(c) 40 miles.
(d) 100 miles.

2. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?
(a) $5.
(b) $3.
(c) $4.
(d) $10.

3. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Cardboard.
(b) Chicken sheds.
(c) Tires.
(d) Clay.

4. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?
(a) Corn bread.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Squirel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book was banned from Kern County, California, in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

2. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids science and sewing so they could make more attractive and better fitting clothes for themselves?

3. What were the federal buildings renovated into for the Weedpatch School?

4. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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