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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who drives the touring car as the Joads and Wilsons cross New Mexico in Chapter 16?
(a) Ma.
(b) Tom.
(c) Pa.
(d) Al.

2. How long did it take Uncle John to come out of his stupor after his wife died?
(a) Six years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Two months.

3. What is Jule Vitela's heritage described as in Chapter 24?
(a) Full-blooded Cherokee.
(b) Half black.
(c) Mexican.
(d) Half Cherokee.

4. Who is the waitress that the narrator says "really smiles with all her might at truck drivers" in Chapter 15 (155)?
(a) Jane.
(b) Mae.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Marie.

5. What does Rose of Sharon say Connie wants to study by correspondence in Chapter 16?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Mechanical engineering.
(d) Radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Al steal to make a ridge pole on the truck in Chapter 16?

2. What musical instrument does the narrator describe as being easy to carry in Chapter 23?

3. What song is played for the migrants to square dance to at the dance in Chapter 24?

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

5. 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)?

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