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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 office did Leo Hart decide to run for in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) Kern County Principal.
(b) Sacramento County Superintendent of Education.
(c) Mendocino County Sheriff.
(d) Kern County Superintendent of Education.

2. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?
(a) Shantilands.
(b) Okievilles.
(c) Okieshanties.
(d) Slumlands.

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

4. Who taught History and Math at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Andrew McWilliams.
(b) Mark Allen White.
(c) Jim McPherson.
(d) Jesse Anderson.

5. One obstacle facing Mr. Hart was the fact that many of the Okie children were what?
(a) Illiterate.
(b) Spoiled.
(c) Undisciplined.
(d) Disabled.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?

3. How many farm labor camps for the Okies were built by the Department of Agriculture during the Dust Bowl period?

4. What did the Okie children refer to the dust storms they'd escaped from when telling about them in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

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

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