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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the father buy for his sons for a penny at the diner in Chapter 15?
(a) A loaf of bread.
(b) Candy canes.
(c) Chewing gum.
(d) A pork chop.

2. What did Uncle John's wife presumably die from?
(a) A burst appendix.
(b) A brain aneurism.
(c) Suicide.
(d) A fall.

3. In Chapter 16, the narrator says of the Joads and Wilsons, "Two days the families were in flight, but on the third the land was too huge for them and they settled into a new technique of living; the highways became their home and movement their medium of" what (164)?
(a) "Expression."
(b) "Prayer."
(c) "Observance."
(d) "Solitude."

4. Of what does one of the listeners say he would "cord 'em up around me like wood, an I'd eat my way out" if he were rich in Chapter 23?
(a) Slabs of bacon.
(b) Noodles.
(c) Strip steak.
(d) Pork chops.

5. What does Al steal to make a ridge pole on the truck in Chapter 16?
(a) A pencil.
(b) A fence rail.
(c) A cabin door.
(d) A bayonette.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose of Sharon say Connie wants to study by correspondence in Chapter 16?

2. What does the used car lot owner wish he had a thousand of in Chapter 7?

3. What apparently causes the rattling pound in the touring car in Chapter 16?

4. What musical instrument does the narrator in Chapter 23 describe as rare and hard to learn?

5. Who tells the waitress to give the passing migrants a loaf of bread in Chapter 15?

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