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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator states in Chapter 19, "And while the Californians wanted many things, accumulation, social success, amusement, luxury, and a curious banking security, the new barbarians wanted only two things..." (233). What were the two things that the Okies wanted?
(a) Money and security.
(b) Family and friends.
(c) Success and adventure.
(d) Land and food.

3. Where does Tom Joad first encounter Jim Casy in Chapter 4?
(a) Under a willow tree.
(b) At the post office.
(c) In a cemetary.
(d) At the movie theater.

4. Jim Casy says in Chapter 18, "I ain't tryin' to preach no sermon, but I never seen nobody that's busy as a prairie dog collectin' stuff that wasn't" what (207)?
(a) "Powerful."
(b) "Married."
(c) "A narcissist."
(d) "Disappointed."

5. How long had Uncle John been married when his wife died?
(a) Six months.
(b) Eight months.
(c) Two months.
(d) Four months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tom say visited at McAlester last Christmas with cornet music in Chapter 10?

2. To whom did California once belong, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

3. How far is it from Sallisaw to Gore?

4. Who tells the waitress to give the passing migrants a loaf of bread in Chapter 15?

5. Highway 66 is described as what in the beginning of Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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