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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much money did the Weedpatch School gain from community taxes?
2. One obstacle facing Mr. Hart was the fact that many of the Okie children were what?
3. In what war had Leo Hart recently served upon meeting the Okie children?
4. Who was hired as a music teacher and when he received a check for a year of services, he donated it back to the school?
5. Who was the leader of his fellow students when three carloads of local high school boys drove onto the Weedpatch School grounds, harassing and threatening the Okie students?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the Weedpatch School look like after one year? How much did the student body grow?
2. What did the Okie parents think of the transformation of their children at the Weedpatch School? Why?
3. Where did Leo Hart obtain land for the Weedpatch School? How much did it cost?
4. Who taught at the Weedpatch School? What did the instructors teach?
5. Who built the Weedpatch School? How?
6. What were the buildings renovated into for the Weedpatch School?
7. What story is related of Joyce Foster at the Weedpatch School?
8. What donations did Leo Hart acquire for the Weedpatch School? From whom?
9. How did Leo Hart go about helping the Okie children? What office did he run for?
10. What are examples of the generosity of the administration and faculty at the Weedpatch School?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the prejudice and segregation faced by the Okies in California. What was the reaction of the local communities to the influx of Okies in the region? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the lives of the Okies in the Okievilles versus their situation in the Weedpatch and other federally funded camps. How much did it cost a family to stay at a migrant camp? What was life on the camp like?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how the idealism the Okies felt toward California reflects similar images that immigrants see America as today. How does this idealistic image evolve?
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