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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 Doyle Powers get as a reward for doing well on his math test in Chapter Eight: Our School?

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

3. The kids at the Weedpatch School were given what responsibility?

4. 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?

5. What did Mr. Hart buy and donate to the school to help out?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who built the Weedpatch School? How?

3. What resistance did Hart meet with the Kern County community? What did the citizens think of Mr. Hart?

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

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

6. What were some of the obstacles facing Leo Hart in his attempts to help the Okie children?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe the geographical region of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Where is it centered and what states are included in the region? What is the climate like?

Essay Topic 3

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

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