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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: Sunset School and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?
(a) The Smiths.
(b) The Masters.
(c) The Andersons.
(d) The Rosses.

2. How far does the Tehachapi Mountain Range extend?
(a) 40 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

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

4. The field trips and outings offered as rewards for scholastic achievement frequently included going where?
(a) The museum.
(b) Fishing.
(c) The planetarium.
(d) The zoo.

5. Once the Okies started arriving in the California towns, they found notices that there were how many men for every job there?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. The cost of a family to stay at the Weedpatch Camp was how much per week?

2. Many of the squatters in Okie communities lived in shacks made of what?

3. In what year does the author write it suddenly stopped raining in the Oklahoma Panhandle?

4. Lunches at the Weedpatch School cost how much per day?

5. Mr. Hart leased the land next to the Weedpatch Camp for how much money?

(see the answer key)

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