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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. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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) 1930.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1935.

3. After the arrival of the Okies, cotton pickers in California were paid how much per hour?
(a) 25 cents.
(b) 10 cents.
(c) 5 cents.
(d) 50 cents.

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

5. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many hours a day?

2. The new building of the Weedpatch School contained classrooms and what?

3. Of what branch of the military had Leo Hart been a member?

4. In what war had Leo Hart recently served upon meeting the Okie children?

5. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?

(see the answer key)

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