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

2. Walls at the Weedpatch School would collapse from what?
(a) Sleet.
(b) Wind.
(c) Rain.
(d) Hail.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did vandals do to harass the teachers of the Weedpatch School?

2. What book was banned from Kern County, California, in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

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

4. What office did Leo Hart decide to run for in Chapter Five: Mr. Hart?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What donations did Leo Hart acquire for the Weedpatch School? From whom?

2. What nontraditional responsibilities were the children of the Weedpatch School given?

3. What resistance did Hart meet with the Kern County community? What did the citizens think of Mr. Hart?

4. When did Leo Hart first meet with the students and teachers of the Weedpatch School? Where?

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

6. What was the community reaction when Mr. Hart decided to create a school for the Okie children?

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

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

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

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

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