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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The manager of the Weedpatch Camp was good friends with what author?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) James Joyce.

2. What organs had Leo Hart lost to his disease after his military service?
(a) Lung and kidney.
(b) Appendix and spleen.
(c) Lung and spleen.
(d) Spleen and kidney.

3. What was the official name of the Weedpatch School?
(a) The F.D. Roosevelt Emergency School.
(b) The Kern County Emergency School.
(c) The Arvin Federal Emergency School.
(d) The Weedpatch Emergency School.

4. How much money did the Weedpatch School gain from community taxes?
(a) $500.
(b) Zero.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $1,000.

5. Who bought an airplane from a military surplus facility for the Weedpatch School?
(a) Pete Bancroft.
(b) Mark Allen White.
(c) Jim McPherson.
(d) Andrew McWilliams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did vandals do to harass the teachers of the Weedpatch School?

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

3. One obstacle facing Mr. Hart was the fact that many of the Okie children were what?

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

5. Mr. Hart determined that Okie children were essentially what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What made progress slow with the Okie children of the Weedpatch School? How did the teachers cope?

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

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

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

8. How did Leo Hart come to meet the children of the Weedpatch Camp? What did he learn from them?

9. Who taught at the Weedpatch School? What did the instructors teach?

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

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