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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight: Our School.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When there was enough rain, what crops did the Okies in the Panhandle grow?
(a) Cotton and tobacco.
(b) Corn and wheat.
(c) Tomatoes and corn.
(d) Wheat and rice.

2. In 1936, the author writes that it had not rained more than a few drops in the Panhandle in how many years?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. What is the County Seat of Texas County and largest city in the Oklahoma Panhandle?
(a) Guymon.
(b) Boise City.
(c) Oklahoma City.
(d) Tulsa.

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

5. What word to the Okies represented a magical place with better lives?
(a) New York.
(b) Canada.
(c) California.
(d) Oregon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the airplane cost which was bought and donated to the Weedpatch School?

2. Where did families often stop to pick cotton along their route west during the Dust Bowl?

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

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

5. Who at the Weedpatch School taught the kids shoe cobbling so they could repair their parents' shoes?

(see the answer key)

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