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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the border guard ask if the Joads have when they get to the high country of Arizona?
(a) Any food.
(b) Any plants.
(c) Any water.
(d) Any children.

2. What book does the author reference in Chapter 9?
(a) Tomorrow's Road.
(b) The Great Gatsby.
(c) Pilgrim's Progress.
(d) To Have and Have Not.

3. What does the used car lot owner wish he had a thousand of in Chapter 7?
(a) Model-A's.
(b) Model-T's.
(c) Jalopies.
(d) Cadillacs.

4. Who in the migrant camps generally are responsible for pitching the tents and bringing down the beds, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?
(a) The men.
(b) The women.
(c) The elders.
(d) The children.

5. What does the driver of the truck do as it approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?
(a) It swerves to hit it.
(b) It swerves to avoid it.
(c) It stops and honks.
(d) It stops and backs over the turtle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Tom say he mixes up with Scripture in Chapter 10?

2. What do Winfield and Ruthie bring back to the car at the gas station in Chapter 13?

3. The stranger and his son that meets the Joads in the river in Chapter 18 tells them, "Well, Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're" what (205)?

4. What symbolism is evoked by the turtle in Chapter 3?

5. What kind of animal does Casy describe as clinging with its jaws until one pries its head apart with a screwdriver in Chapter 13?

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