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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 bottle of milk and a can of soup.
(b) A soup pan and a can of beans.
(c) A beer bottle opener and a broken fork.
(d) A fully placed dinner that has rotten.

2. The narrator states in Chapter 11, "... the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only" what (117)?
(a) "Dirt."
(b) "Capital."
(c) "Chemistry."
(d) "Commerce."

3. What are crops like lettuce, cauliflower, artichokes, and potatoes referred to as in Chapter 19?
(a) Top crops.
(b) Stoop crops.
(c) Standing crops.
(d) Lost crops.

4. Whose pigtails does Tom say he was pulling on the day he was baptized in Chapter 4?
(a) Susy Little's.
(b) Mary Smart's.
(c) Annie Wilson's.
(d) Mae Rogers'.

5. Who is the tractor driver's father in Chapter 5?
(a) James Rogers.
(b) John Wilkins.
(c) Joe Davis.
(d) Gerald Ross.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tom take the turtle with him in Chapter 4?

2. Who is Rose of Sharon married to?

3. How long does Tom estimate it will take the Joads to reach their destination in Chapter 10?

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 did Uncle John's wife presumably die from?

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