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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 were Okies identified with by stereotype?
(a) Affected dialects.
(b) Nice cars.
(c) Expensive clothing.
(d) Ratty clothing.

2. What was the President of the School Board's reaction when Hart informed him he was removing the Okie children from the public schools?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Rage.
(c) Anger.
(d) Glee.

3. What was the official name of the Weedpatch Camp?
(a) Agriculture Emergency Camp.
(b) Weedpatch Federal Camp.
(c) F.D.R. Camp.
(d) Arvin Federal Camp.

4. Many items for the Weedpatch School were donated by whom?
(a) The state government.
(b) The community.
(c) The federal government.
(d) NATO.

5. Where were Okies allowed to sit in movie theaters during their discrimination in California?
(a) The back row.
(b) The front row.
(c) The balcony.
(d) The basement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Leo Hart gone to recover after his military service?

2. In what war had Leo Hart recently served upon meeting the Okie children?

3. Mr. Hart leased the land next to the Weedpatch Camp for how much money?

4. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?

5. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

(see the answer key)

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