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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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) Contracted disease.
(d) Abandoned them.

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

5. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids shoe cobbling so they could repair their parents' shoes?
(a) Mark Allen White.
(b) Jim McPherson.
(c) Victor Jameson.
(d) Andrew McAndrews.

6. What reason did Mr. Hart cite for removing the Okie children from the public schools?
(a) Fire.
(b) Overcrowding.
(c) Disease.
(d) Racism.

7. What did Leo Hart study in college after his military service?
(a) Mechanics.
(b) Education.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Economics.

8. What were the federal buildings renovated into for the Weedpatch School?
(a) Dormitories.
(b) Stables.
(c) Classrooms.
(d) Cafeterias.

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

10. The new building of the Weedpatch School contained classrooms and what?
(a) A stable.
(b) A cafeteria.
(c) A garden.
(d) A dormitory.

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

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

13. What kind of school was Mr. Hart permitted to build for the Okie children?
(a) Tactile.
(b) Emergency.
(c) Gifted.
(d) Charter.

14. When the Weedpatch School made money on its potato crop, some of the money was used to take over one hundred students where?
(a) A zoo.
(b) A fair.
(c) A musuem.
(d) A bowling alley.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of airplane did the Weedpatch School have?

3. Many items for the Weedpatch School were donated by whom?

4. One obstacle facing Mr. Hart was the fact that many of the Okie children were what?

5. Whose hog placed third in the county fair in Chapter Eight: Our School?

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