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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 bought an airplane from a military surplus facility for the Weedpatch School?

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

3. At the Weedpatch School, often kids would miss weeks of school because their parents had what?

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

5. In what year did Leo Hart meet with the teachers he had hired and the kids who would be the first students at the new Weedpatch School?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are examples of the generosity of the administration and faculty at the Weedpatch School?

6. Where did Leo Hart obtain land for the Weedpatch School? How much did it cost?

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

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

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

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

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 the geographical region of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Where is it centered and what states are included in the region? What is the climate like?

Essay Topic 3

How many farmers lost their land between 1935 and 1940? How many families left the Dust Bowl during this period? Where did they go?

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