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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. 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?

2. Incidents of vandalism against the Okies' school included what dead animals left where the kids would find them?

3. Whose hog placed third in the county fair in Chapter Eight: Our School?

4. Who showed his total support for Weedpatch School by enrolling his own children there?

5. By May, 1941, the students at the Weedpatch School were separated into how many main groups?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What practical skills were taught alongside traditional academia to the children at the Weedpatch School?

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

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

5. What were the buildings renovated into for the Weedpatch School?

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

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

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

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

10. Who built the Weedpatch School? How?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effects of the Great Depression on the farmers of the Oklahoma Panhandle. What impact did banking and stocks have on the farmers?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Leo Hart's establishment of the Weedpatch School. What legal matters did Hart have to attend in order to make Weedpatch a possibility? Who did he turn to for help?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the impact of the excess of farm workers arriving in California during the period. How were farm wages affected? How was the national economy impacted?

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