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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. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Alexander Welsh.

2. How did Okie parents feel about the transformation of their children at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Thrilled.
(c) Horrified.
(d) Disappointed.

3. What is the County Seat of Cimarron County?
(a) Tulsa.
(b) Boise City.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) Prairieville.

4. Many parents, after seeing their children improve at the Weedpatch School decided to do what?
(a) Pay taxes.
(b) Move to San Francisco.
(c) Enroll in college.
(d) Stay in Weedpatch.

5. Today most of Route 66 is what?
(a) Under water.
(b) Renovated.
(c) Urbanized.
(d) Closed.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Tehachapi Mountains lead directly into what valley in California?

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

3. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?

4. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?

5. What were the mobs referred to as which attempted to scare away the Okies after Mr. Hart's election?

(see the answer key)

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