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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Timothy Wallace's son?
(a) Jim.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Paul.
(d) Wilkie.

2. What kind of animal does Casy describe as clinging with its jaws until one pries its head apart with a screwdriver in Chapter 13?
(a) Gila monster.
(b) Turtle.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Fox.

3. 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) Metaphor.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Assonance.
(d) Simile.

4. During what historical era does The Grapes of Wrath take place?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The Victorian Era.
(c) The Roaring Twenties.
(d) The Renaissance.

5. What does the narrator say that the owners followed by importing "slaves" in Chapter 19?
(a) Germany.
(b) Rome.
(c) France.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is printed on the side of the red truck outside the roadside restaurant in Chapter 2?

2. Who does Tom inform that he is leaving to try to get a job on the Joads' first morning at the Weedpatch camp?

3. What is Jule Vitela's heritage described as in Chapter 24?

4. What does Tom have for breakfast with fellow campers at the Weedpatch camp on his first morning there?

5. Who does Tom say visited at McAlester last Christmas with cornet music in Chapter 10?

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