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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. Mr. Hart leased the land next to the Weedpatch Camp for how much money?
(a) $10.
(b) $30.
(c) $1.
(d) $40.

2. How long did the new building at the Weedpatch School take to build?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 7 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 9 months.

3. What is the highest peak of the Tehachapi Mountains?
(a) Mount Whitney.
(b) McKinley Mountain.
(c) Double Mountain.
(d) Mount Lyell.

4. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?
(a) By the girls.
(b) In the back.
(c) Outside.
(d) On the floor.

5. What did the Okie children refer to the dust storms they'd escaped from when telling about them in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) Awful nights.
(b) Black clouds.
(c) Terror winds.
(d) Red storms.

Short Answer Questions

1. By when after the opening of the Weedpatch School had the kids helped to till the field next to the school?

2. The hot summer before the school was to open, the Okie kids spent morning to night where?

3. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

4. Incidents of vandalism against the Okies' school included what dead animals left where the kids would find them?

5. Who established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933?

(see the answer key)

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