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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: Sunset School and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When had the Great Depression begun?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1919.

2. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1935.

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

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

5. The kids with what percentage or better averages were occasionally taken on field trips organized by their teachers?
(a) 100.
(b) 80.
(c) 90.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who headed the mob which burned down an Okie migrant camp near the Kern River in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

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

3. What term refers to the sharp, nasal tone of the Okie dialect?

4. What was the President of the School Board's reaction when Hart informed him he was removing the Okie children from the public schools?

5. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?

(see the answer key)

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