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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tom describe his Uncle John?
(a) Loving.
(b) Rich.
(c) Crazy.
(d) Gregarious.

2. What crop is growing across Tom's homestead when he arrives in Chapter 6?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Peaches.
(d) Wheat.

3. 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).
(a) Literary allusion.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

4. What does the 40-year-old woman do as she approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?
(a) She stops her car and takes the turtle.
(b) She swerves to avoid it.
(c) She stops and honks.
(d) She swerves to hit it.

5. What does Tom find on the sink shelf in the kitchen when he enters his abandoned homestead in Chapter 6?
(a) A beer bottle opener and a broken fork.
(b) A bottle of milk and a can of soup.
(c) A fully placed dinner that has rotten.
(d) A soup pan and a can of beans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom describe Uncle John leaving on his pillow when he was a kid in Chapter 8?

2. How are Tom Joad's clothes described in Chapter 2?

3. What does Tom say is the first thing that kids do when they know a house is empty in Chapter 6?

4. Where does the truck driver describe a dance where someone was killed in Chapter 2?

5. What does the truck driver say he is hoping to study through correspondence school in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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