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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven: Something to Watch.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leo Hart became a school counselor in what county following his education?
(a) Humboldt County.
(b) Kern County.
(c) Mendocino County.
(d) Sacramento County.

2. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids shoe cobbling so they could repair their parents' shoes?
(a) Andrew McAndrews.
(b) Victor Jameson.
(c) Jim McPherson.
(d) Mark Allen White.

3. Where was it rumored among the Okies that grape-pickers were needed when they arrived in California?
(a) Eureka.
(b) Bakersfield.
(c) Sonoma.
(d) Sacramento.

4. Mr. Hart determined that Okie children were essentially what?
(a) Handicapped.
(b) Extraordinary.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Slow.

5. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?
(a) Chicken sheds.
(b) Clay.
(c) Tires.
(d) Cardboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period earned as little as how much per week?

2. What did Leo Hart study in college after his military service?

3. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many hours a day?

4. How many farm labor camps for the Okies were built by the Department of Agriculture during the Dust Bowl period?

5. The average migrant farmhand during the Dust Bowl period worked how many days per week?

(see the answer key)

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