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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Leo Hart meet with the teachers he had hired and the kids who would be the first students at the new Weedpatch School?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1935.

2. The hot summer before the school was to open, the Okie kids spent morning to night where?
(a) The canning factory.
(b) The industry mill.
(c) The corn fields.
(d) The cotton fields.

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

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?
(a) Anger.
(b) Glee.
(c) Rage.
(d) Jealousy.

5. What was the name of the principal of the Weedpatch School?
(a) Leo Hart.
(b) Edna Hart.
(c) Joseph Bancroft.
(d) Pete Bancroft.

6. What did Doyle Powers make on his math test in order to get a special reward in Chapter Eight: Our School?
(a) 100.
(b) 92.
(c) 60.
(d) 98.

7. Many parents, after seeing their children improve at the Weedpatch School decided to do what?
(a) Stay in Weedpatch.
(b) Enroll in college.
(c) Move to San Francisco.
(d) Pay taxes.

8. The kids at the Weedpatch School were given what responsibility?
(a) Raising livestock.
(b) Cooking lunches.
(c) Attending Mass.
(d) Attending college.

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

10. Of what branch of the military had Leo Hart been a member?
(a) Army.
(b) Air Force.
(c) Marines.
(d) Navy.

11. Who headed the mob which burned down an Okie migrant camp near the Kern River in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) The principal.
(c) The fire chief.
(d) The mayor.

12. By May, 1941, the student body population at the Weedpatch School had increased to nearly how many students?
(a) 300.
(b) 150.
(c) 100.
(d) 200.

13. At the Weedpatch School, often kids would miss weeks of school because their parents had what?
(a) Removed them from education.
(b) Found work miles away.
(c) Abandoned them.
(d) Contracted disease.

14. Whose hog placed third in the county fair in Chapter Eight: Our School?
(a) Mark Skawinski's.
(b) Tenaya Jones'.
(c) Eddie Davis'.
(d) Andrew Ross'.

15. What book was banned from Kern County, California, in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) A Secret Rapture.
(b) To Have and Have Not.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the manager of the Weedpatch Camp?

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

3. The manager of the Weedpatch Camp was good friends with what author?

4. Where had Leo Hart gone to recover after his military service?

5. Who showed his total support for Weedpatch School by enrolling his own children there?

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