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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) Alliteration.
(d) Metaphor.

2. Who is driving the car in the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) Al.
(b) Pa.
(c) Tom.
(d) Jim.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Pa say they have left once the Joads reach California and camp for the day in Chapter 18?

2. The stranger and his son that meets the Joads in the river in Chapter 18 tells them, "Well, Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're" what (205)?

3. What does the 40-year-old woman do as she approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?

4. 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?

5. Approximately when did the Dust Bowl occur?

(see the answer key)

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