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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. Who taught History and Math at the Weedpatch School?

2. The manager of the Weedpatch Camp was good friends with what author?

3. Hart secured enough what to build a new school building in Chapter Six: Weedpatch School?

4. Who was the manager of the Weedpatch Camp?

5. When the Weedpatch School made money on its potato crop, some of the money was used to take over one hundred students where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who built the Weedpatch School? How?

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

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

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

6. What rewards were offered the children at the Weedpatch School who excelled academically?

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

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

9. What did the Okie parents think of the transformation of their children at the Weedpatch School? Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Okies' crossing of the Black Mountains and the Mojave Desert. What dangers did the Okies face crossing these regions?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Dewey Russell and his involvement in the Weedpatch School. How did Russell become friends with John Steinbeck? How had the friendship influenced Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?

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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