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

2. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?
(a) Texas.
(b) Arizona.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Arkansas.

3. What did vandals do to the original buildings at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Painted them.
(b) Set fire to them.
(c) Flooded them.
(d) Egged them.

4. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Cardboard.
(b) Tires.
(c) Clay.
(d) Chicken sheds.

5. Who showed his total support for Weedpatch School by enrolling his own children there?
(a) Andrew McWilliams.
(b) Rose Gilger.
(c) Pete Bancroft.
(d) Jim McPherson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leo Hart became a school counselor in what county following his education?

2. How much money did the Weedpatch School gain from community taxes?

3. Mr. Hart determined that Okie children were essentially what?

4. What was the President of the School Board's reaction when Hart informed him he was removing the Okie children from the public schools?

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?

(see the answer key)

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