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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. Who established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Harold L. Ickes.
(d) Harry Truman.

2. On the first day of work on the Weedpatch School, the kids built what?
(a) A trench.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A fort.
(d) A fish pond.

3. In the flatlands of the Panhandle, people could see the dust storms coming from up to how far away?
(a) 20 miles.
(b) 40 miles.
(c) 30 miles.
(d) 10 miles.

4. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Clay.
(b) Chicken sheds.
(c) Cardboard.
(d) Tires.

5. What half of Kansas was a part of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Eastern.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Okie parents feel about the transformation of their children at the Weedpatch School?

2. What man gave hope to the suffering Okie children in the end of Chapter Four?

3. The two dilapidated buildings on the land where the Weedpatch School was to be built were formerly what?

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

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?

(see the answer key)

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