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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight: Our School.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the Weedpatch School, often kids would miss weeks of school because their parents had what?
(a) Contracted disease.
(b) Found work miles away.
(c) Removed them from education.
(d) Abandoned them.

2. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Northern.

3. Frequently the wind in the Dust Bowl blew more than how many miles per hour?
(a) 50.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 100.

4. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Millions.
(d) Thousands.

5. The Weedpatch School's population grew to how many students several years after its establishment?
(a) 100.
(b) 400.
(c) 200.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What man gave hope to the suffering Okie children in the end of Chapter Four?

2. What term refers to a small printed notice, advertisement, or announcement, usually for distribution by hand?

3. Today most of Route 66 is what?

4. How did Okie parents feel about the transformation of their children at the Weedpatch School?

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

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