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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. When had the Great Depression begun?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1919.

2. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?
(a) By streams.
(b) By towns.
(c) By churches.
(d) By highways.

3. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids shoe cobbling so they could repair their parents' shoes?
(a) Victor Jameson.
(b) Jim McPherson.
(c) Andrew McAndrews.
(d) Mark Allen White.

4. What reason did Mr. Hart cite for removing the Okie children from the public schools?
(a) Racism.
(b) Fire.
(c) Disease.
(d) Overcrowding.

5. What did the headlines scream in California in Chapter Four?
(a) Okies were diseased.
(b) California was sinking.
(c) The West was Won.
(d) Okies were invading.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?

2. The trip from the Dust Bowl could take families anywhere from three weeks to how long?

3. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?

4. The Weedpatch School's population grew to how many students several years after its establishment?

5. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

(see the answer key)

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