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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Tom estimate it will take the Joads to reach their destination in Chapter 10?
(a) Two months.
(b) One month.
(c) One week.
(d) Two weeks.

2. By what name does the waitress call the truck driver Bill in Chapter 15?
(a) Bill the Bouncer.
(b) Bully Bill.
(c) Bill the Speedster.
(d) Big Bill the Rat.

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

4. What does Ma make to celebrate Al's engagement in Chapter 28?
(a) Pancakes.
(b) Chocolate cake.
(c) Waffles.
(d) Peach cobbler.

5. Who does Tom inform that he is leaving to try to get a job on the Joads' first morning at the Weedpatch camp?
(a) Ruthie.
(b) Pa.
(c) Ma.
(d) Rose of Sharon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who among the migrants take on the duties of cooking dinner, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?

2. Where does one of the tenants at Weedpatch describe the employees from the rubber companies going unionized in Chapter 24?

3. What is the tenant farmer holding as he watches the tractor wreck his home in Chapter 5?

4. For how long does Timothy Wallace say he and his son have been in California in Chapter 22?

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

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