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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. The migrant workers were increasing the state and county costs for what during the Dust Bowl period in California?
(a) City officials.
(b) Jobs.
(c) Police and fire attendants.
(d) Medical care and education.

2. Who helped Leo Hart build the Weedpatch School, piece by piece?
(a) The federal agents.
(b) The Army Reserve.
(c) The Peace Corps.
(d) The students.

3. When the Weedpatch School made money on its potato crop, some of the money was used to take over one hundred students where?
(a) A bowling alley.
(b) A musuem.
(c) A zoo.
(d) A fair.

4. The starvation diets and unsanitary conditions of the Okie communities led to disease including tuberculosis, pneumonia and what?
(a) Syphillis.
(b) Gangrene.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Cholera.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Progress at the Weedpatch School was slow and sporadic because many of the children had little or no what?

2. Where did Rosalene Long's family get caught in a flood as they headed west?

3. What office did Leo Hart decide to run for in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

4. The excess of farm workers arriving in California in the 1930s was good for the farmers because it did what?

5. Where was Horace Ray Conley from?

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