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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. What did vandals do to the original buildings at the Weedpatch School?

2. The kids with what percentage or better averages were occasionally taken on field trips organized by their teachers?

3. 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?

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

5. Who was hired as a music teacher and when he received a check for a year of services, he donated it back to the school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What nontraditional responsibilities were the children of the Weedpatch School given?

2. Where did Leo Hart obtain land for the Weedpatch School? How much did it cost?

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

4. What incidents of vandalism thwarted the Weedpatch School?

5. Who built the Weedpatch School? How?

6. What had led to Leo Hart's obtaining an education degree? How was he injured from the war?

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

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

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

10. What are examples of the generosity of the administration and faculty at the Weedpatch School?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How many farmers lost their land between 1935 and 1940? How many families left the Dust Bowl during this period? Where did they go?

Essay Topic 2

How was discrimination against Okie children more difficult than against their parents? What stereotypes followed the Okies? How were they segregated from the greater community?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Okies' crossing of the Black Mountains and the Mojave Desert. What dangers did the Okies face crossing these regions?

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