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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 did vandals do to harass the teachers of the Weedpatch School?
(a) Broke their windows.
(b) Slashed their tires.
(c) Released chickens.
(d) Sent death threats.

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

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

4. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?
(a) Cow's noses.
(b) Horse stalls.
(c) Chicken coops.
(d) Horse nostrils.

5. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids shoe cobbling so they could repair their parents' shoes?
(a) Andrew McAndrews.
(b) Mark Allen White.
(c) Victor Jameson.
(d) Jim McPherson.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The Weedpatch School's population grew to how many students several years after its establishment?

4. Who taught History and Math at the Weedpatch School?

5. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?

(see the answer key)

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