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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. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

2. What was the name of Leo Hart's wife?
(a) Leo Hart.
(b) Andrew Williams.
(c) James Kinkaid.
(d) Edna Hart.

3. What student at the Weedpatch School lost her father to lung disease?
(a) Sally Anderson.
(b) Christina Parker.
(c) Joyce Foster.
(d) Sarah Jane.

4. Many cruel farmers would pour what on surplus food or burn it rather than give it to the starving Okies?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Oil.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Water.

5. What was the second northern Texas town passed by the Okies as they headed west?
(a) Shamrock.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Longhorn.
(d) Amarillo.

Short Answer Questions

1. California's attorney general issued a legal opinion that a school that had the status of "emergency school" could not operate for more than how many years?

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

3. What was the name of the principal of the Weedpatch School?

4. When the Weedpatch School made money on its potato crop, some of the money was used to take over one hundred students where?

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

(see the answer key)

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