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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 is the name of the used car salesman that is addressed by the boss in Chapter 7?
(a) Pete.
(b) Mark.
(c) Jack.
(d) Jim.

2. What does Tom Joad offer the truck driver a "snort" of in Chapter 2 (14)?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Tequila.
(c) Gin.
(d) Port.

3. What is the name of the dog that Tom recognizes among the others in Chapter 8?
(a) Johnny.
(b) Mittens.
(c) Pete.
(d) Flash.

4. By what name are the Okies' encampments called?
(a) Ghettos.
(b) Hoovervilles.
(c) Weedpatches.
(d) Country Villages.

5. What does the truck driver say he is hoping to study through correspondence school in Chapter 2?
(a) Banking management.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Radios.
(d) Mechanical engineering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who in the back seat of the car wants a cup of water in Chapter 12?

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

3. What does Ruthie describe in the picture she saw of the desert once in Chapter 18?

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

5. 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?

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