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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 type of airplane did the Weedpatch School have?
(a) B-52.
(b) D-21.
(c) C-46.
(d) Albatross.

2. What popular Jack Bryant song did the Okie families sing as they made their way west?
(a) "Westward Ho."
(b) "Cally-Ho."
(c) "Okie Song."
(d) "Sunny Cal."

3. At the Weedpatch School, often kids would miss weeks of school because their parents had what?
(a) Found work miles away.
(b) Removed them from education.
(c) Abandoned them.
(d) Contracted disease.

4. In 1935, the federal government formed what service to coordinate relief activities in the Dust Bowl?
(a) Oklahoma Relief Service.
(b) Roosevelt Relief Service.
(c) Drought Relief Service.
(d) Federal Relief Service.

5. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?
(a) Trees.
(b) White people.
(c) Plants.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Leo Hart's wife?

2. Mr. Hart determined that Okie children were essentially what?

3. The kids with what percentage or better averages were occasionally taken on field trips organized by their teachers?

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

5. Who established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933?

(see the answer key)

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