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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does one of the listeners say he would "cord 'em up around me like wood, an I'd eat my way out" if he were rich in Chapter 23?
(a) Noodles.
(b) Strip steak.
(c) Slabs of bacon.
(d) Pork chops.

2. What happens to the Joads' dog in Chapter 13?
(a) It is shot.
(b) It runs away.
(c) It is hit by a car.
(d) It starves to death.

3. What does Tom say his father strung up in a tree that he points out in the fields in Chapter 8?
(a) A gopher.
(b) A snake.
(c) A coyote.
(d) A chicken.

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?
(a) Family and friends.
(b) Success and adventure.
(c) Land and food.
(d) Money and security.

5. The narrator describes Highway 66 as "the mother road, the road of" what, in Chapter 12 (119)?
(a) "Flight."
(b) "The outlaw."
(c) "Retribution."
(d) "Danger."

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago does Grampa say it was that his brother went out West to California in Chapter 10?

2. What setting is described as where the swallows nest that Tom visits before leaving for California in Chapter 10?

3. Where did Aunt Sadie get the china dog that is described in Chapter 9?

4. How much money does it cost the Joads to stay at the Weedpatch camp weekly?

5. On what day of the week is the dance held at the Weedpatch camp in Chapter 24?

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