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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. What man gave hope to the suffering Okie children in the end of Chapter Four?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Leo Hart.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Andrew McCarthy.

2. What student of the Weedpatch School became a college professor?
(a) Willard Melton.
(b) Jason Jackson.
(c) Isaac Williams.
(d) Jonas Mitchell.

3. What did the headlines scream in California in Chapter Four?
(a) The West was Won.
(b) Okies were diseased.
(c) Okies were invading.
(d) California was sinking.

4. One obstacle facing Mr. Hart was the fact that many of the Okie children were what?
(a) Spoiled.
(b) Illiterate.
(c) Disabled.
(d) Undisciplined.

5. What were the squatter communities of the Okies come to be known as?
(a) Okievilles.
(b) Slumlands.
(c) Okieshanties.
(d) Shantilands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

2. It was said amongs the Okies that no one went hungry in California because what were everywhere there?

3. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?

4. Where did the Okie families most often camp at night on their journey west?

5. Today most of Route 66 is what?

(see the answer key)

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