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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 was hired as a music teacher and when he received a check for a year of services, he donated it back to the school?
(a) Jim McPherson.
(b) Andrew McWilliams.
(c) Rose Gilger.
(d) Fred Smith.

2. 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.

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

4. 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?
(a) 30.
(b) 45.
(c) 40.
(d) 50.

5. The new building of the Weedpatch School contained classrooms and what?
(a) A garden.
(b) A stable.
(c) A cafeteria.
(d) A dormitory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Leo Hart study in college after his military service?

2. Who taught History and Math at the Weedpatch School?

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

4. Where was help supposedly needed on cotton and vegetable farms in California after the arrival of the Okies?

5. Where had Leo Hart gone to recover after his military service?

(see the answer key)

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