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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What highway is described as going from Clarksville and Ozark and Van Buren and Fort Smith through Arkansas in Chapter 12?
(a) Highway 101.
(b) Highway 62.
(c) Highway 34.
(d) Highway 45.

2. What is the tenant farmer holding as he watches the tractor wreck his home in Chapter 5?
(a) A dagger.
(b) A rifle.
(c) A rake.
(d) A bayonette.

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

4. What book does Ma say Tom's Pa's pa confused with Scripture in Chapter 10?
(a) The Winning of Barbara Worth.
(b) A Lost World.
(c) Dr. Miles' Almanac.
(d) The Virgen de Fatima.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the well on the Joad homestead described when Tom arrives in Chapter 6?

2. Whose pigtails does Tom say he was pulling on the day he was baptized in Chapter 4?

3. Where did Aunt Sadie get the china dog that is described in Chapter 9?

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

5. What is printed on the side of the red truck outside the roadside restaurant in Chapter 2?

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