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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six: Weedpatch School.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where had Leo Hart gone to recover after his military service?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) California.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Oklahoma.

3. More than how many Americans were left homeless due to the Dust Bowl?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 3,000,000.
(d) 200,000.

4. What city was the Dust Bowl centered near?
(a) Hooker, OK.
(b) Beaver, OK.
(c) Goodwell, OK.
(d) Tuscon, OK.

5. How old was Leo Hart when he got in the habit of stopping by Weedpatch Camp to play ball with the Okie kids and talk to them?
(a) 40.
(b) 45.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

2. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?

3. The Okie squatter diet consisted largely of boiled cabbage and what?

4. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?

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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