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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What organs had Leo Hart lost to his disease after his military service?
(a) Appendix and spleen.
(b) Lung and spleen.
(c) Lung and kidney.
(d) Spleen and kidney.

3. What were the mobs referred to as which attempted to scare away the Okies after Mr. Hart's election?
(a) Burn Brigades.
(b) Danger Mobs.
(c) Fire Mobs.
(d) Shelley Mobs.

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

5. The Weedpatch School's population grew to how many students several years after its establishment?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 200.
(d) 400.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the federal buildings renovated into for the Weedpatch School?

2. What did Doyle Powers get as a reward for doing well on his math test in Chapter Eight: Our School?

3. The kids at the Weedpatch School were given what responsibility?

4. How old was Leo Hart when he got in the habit of stopping by Weedpatch Camp to play ball with the Okie kids and talk to them?

5. Who cooked the school lunches in the new cafeteria at the Weedpatch School?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many children initially enrolled in the Weedpatch School? Who did Hart seek to teach there?

2. Who built the Weedpatch School? How?

3. What were some of the obstacles facing Leo Hart in his attempts to help the Okie children?

4. What had led to Leo Hart's obtaining an education degree? How was he injured from the war?

5. What were the buildings renovated into for the Weedpatch School?

6. How did Leo Hart go about helping the Okie children? What office did he run for?

7. Who headed a mob which attacked the Weedpatch Camp in Chapter 5: Mr. Hart? Why?

8. What made progress slow with the Okie children of the Weedpatch School? How did the teachers cope?

9. What practical skills were taught alongside traditional academia to the children at the Weedpatch School?

10. What challenges did the Okie children of the Weedpatch School face in their education?

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