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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what historical era does The Grapes of Wrath take place?
(a) The Victorian Era.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) The Roaring Twenties.
(d) The Renaissance.

2. What do the tractors in the novel represent symbolically?
(a) The education system.
(b) The birth of innocence.
(c) The accomplishments of intelligence.
(d) The Industrial Age.

3. How much money does the tractor driver say he makes in a day in Chapter 5?
(a) $1.
(b) $2.
(c) $5.
(d) $3.

4. Who was the mother of the baby that was eaten by a pig next to the Joads'?
(a) Dolly Parkins.
(b) Molly Rogers.
(c) Milly Jacobs.
(d) Anna Winter.

5. Where does the truck driver describe a dance where someone was killed in Chapter 2?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Shawnee.
(c) Sycamore.
(d) Sewannee.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the sun in Chapter 1?

2. What did Tom use to kill the man that pulled a knife on him in a bar fight?

3. What crop is growing across Tom's homestead when he arrives in Chapter 6?

4. What literary device is used in the following sentence from Chapter 2? "His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells" (9).

5. What happens when the red ant attacks the turtle in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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