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

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

3. By May, 1941, the students at the Weedpatch School were separated into how many main groups?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. Who taught History and Math at the Weedpatch School?
(a) Andrew McWilliams.
(b) Mark Allen White.
(c) Jim McPherson.
(d) Jesse Anderson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the mobs referred to as which attempted to scare away the Okies after Mr. Hart's election?

2. Leo Hart became a school counselor in what county following his education?

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

4. How long did the new building at the Weedpatch School take to build?

5. What reason did Mr. Hart cite for removing the Okie children from the public schools?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who taught at the Weedpatch School? What did the instructors teach?

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

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. What incidents of vandalism thwarted the Weedpatch School?

7. Who built the Weedpatch School? How?

8. What story is related of Joyce Foster at the Weedpatch School?

9. What did the Weedpatch School look like after one year? How much did the student body grow?

10. How did Leo Hart come to meet the children of the Weedpatch Camp? What did he learn from them?

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