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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 city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?
(a) Delano, CA.
(b) Eureka, CA.
(c) San Francisco, CA.
(d) Sacramento, CA.

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

3. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. Who cooked the school lunches in the new cafeteria at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Edna Hart.
(b) James Skawinski.
(c) Edward Ross.
(d) Leo Hart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did vandals do to the original buildings at the Weedpatch School?

2. The meals of the Okies as they traveled west consisted mostly of potatoes and what?

3. Whose hog placed third in the county fair in Chapter Eight: Our School?

4. What division of the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

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

(see the answer key)

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