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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. One benefit at the Weedpatch School was that the kids were able to learn practical skills like airplane mechanics and what?
(a) Farming.
(b) Plumbing.
(c) Business investment.
(d) Electrical installation.

2. By when after the opening of the Weedpatch School had the kids helped to till the field next to the school?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) November.
(d) August.

3. Progress at the Weedpatch School was slow and sporadic because many of the children had little or no what?
(a) Tax money.
(b) Lunch money.
(c) Formal education.
(d) School supplies.

4. Children of farmers in the Dust Bowl were often given the responsibility of cleaning what of dust several times a day?
(a) Chicken coops.
(b) Horse nostrils.
(c) Cow's noses.
(d) Horse stalls.

5. To survive the Dust Bowl, many farmers relied on a diet of what and biscuits?
(a) Squirrels.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Coyote.
(d) Jackrabbits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids shoe cobbling so they could repair their parents' shoes?

2. The farmers of the 1930s in the Oklahoma Panhandle were referred to as what kind of farmers?

3. At the Weedpatch School, often kids would miss weeks of school because their parents had what?

4. Many parents, after seeing their children improve at the Weedpatch School decided to do what?

5. What was the first Texas town recalled by the Okies on their trek west?

(see the answer key)

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