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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long did the new building at the Weedpatch School take to build?
(a) 5 months.
(b) 7 months.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 3 months.

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

4. What did vandals do to the original buildings at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Set fire to them.
(b) Painted them.
(c) Egged them.
(d) Flooded them.

5. Where did Leo Hart enroll in college after his military service?
(a) University of California.
(b) University of Arkansas.
(c) University of Arizona.
(d) University of New York.

6. Who bought an airplane from a military surplus facility for the Weedpatch School?
(a) Andrew McWilliams.
(b) Jim McPherson.
(c) Mark Allen White.
(d) Pete Bancroft.

7. What did Doyle Powers get as a reward for doing well on his math test in Chapter Eight: Our School?
(a) To taxi the plane.
(b) Money to build a farm.
(c) To fly the plane.
(d) To go to the museum.

8. Citizens armed with clubs and what attacked the Weedpatch Camp one night, trying to frighten the Okies away in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Torches.
(c) Guns.
(d) Pitchforks.

9. What office did Leo Hart decide to run for in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?
(a) Mendocino County Sheriff.
(b) Kern County Principal.
(c) Kern County Superintendent of Education.
(d) Sacramento County Superintendent of Education.

10. How many children were initially enrolled in the Weedpatch School?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 50.
(d) 35.

11. Hart secured enough what to build a new school building in Chapter Six: Weedpatch School?
(a) Wood.
(b) Coal.
(c) Mud.
(d) Bricks.

12. How did Okie parents feel about the transformation of their children at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Horrified.
(c) Thrilled.
(d) Indifferent.

13. Leo Hart became a school counselor in what county following his education?
(a) Sacramento County.
(b) Mendocino County.
(c) Kern County.
(d) Humboldt County.

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

15. What disease had Leo Hart contracted during his military service?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Gangrene.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Tuberculosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Hart leased the land next to the Weedpatch Camp for how much money?

2. Who headed the mob which burned down an Okie migrant camp near the Kern River in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

3. Incidents of vandalism against the Okies' school included what dead animals left where the kids would find them?

4. What did the Okie children refer to the dust storms they'd escaped from when telling about them in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

5. What was the official name of the Weedpatch School?

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