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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator describes a tractor in Chapter 11, he states, "The heat goes out of it like the living heat that leaves a corpse" (117). What literary device is employed in this sentence?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Alliteration.

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

3. How far are the Joads and Wilsons from Albuquerque when the touring car breaks down in Chapter 16?
(a) 200 miles.
(b) 75 miles.
(c) 20 miles.
(d) 40 miles.

4. Who does Tom describe having sex in a barn when he brought a heifer to mate with a bull in Chapter 8?
(a) Jack Simpson.
(b) Willy Feely.
(c) Cane Rogers.
(d) Gerald Smith.

5. What sound awakens Tom as he sleeps in the truck on the Joads' first night at the Weedpatch camp?
(a) Clashing iron.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) Howling wolves.
(d) Howling coyotes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the tractors in the novel represent symbolically?

2. What does the father buy for his sons for a penny at the diner in Chapter 15?

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

4. What disease that caues inflammation of the spine is described in Chapter 21?

5. From what narrative point of view is The Grapes of Wrath related?

(see the answer key)

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