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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does the tractor driver say he makes in a day in Chapter 5?
(a) $1.
(b) $3.
(c) $2.
(d) $5.

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

3. Of whom does Tom say in Chapter 8, "He's gettin' screwy like a gopher, livin' like he does" (69)?
(a) Muley.
(b) Roger.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Pete.

4. How many people were in the family that was picked up by a sedan that pulled their trailer to California, according to the narrator in Chapter 12?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

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

6. How is the well on the Joad homestead described when Tom arrives in Chapter 6?
(a) Overflowing.
(b) Dry.
(c) Absent.
(d) Trickling.

7. What does the truck driver say he is hoping to study through correspondence school in Chapter 2?
(a) Banking management.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Radios.
(d) Mechanical engineering.

8. Where is Ivy Wilson traveling West from?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Kansas.

9. Where does Tom Joad first encounter Jim Casy in Chapter 4?
(a) In a cemetary.
(b) At the post office.
(c) Under a willow tree.
(d) At the movie theater.

10. What does the 40-year-old woman do as she approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?
(a) She swerves to avoid it.
(b) She stops and honks.
(c) She swerves to hit it.
(d) She stops her car and takes the turtle.

11. What book does the author reference in Chapter 9?
(a) Pilgrim's Progress.
(b) To Have and Have Not.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) Tomorrow's Road.

12. What is printed on the side of the red truck outside the roadside restaurant in Chapter 2?
(a) Mississippi Transport Company.
(b) Omaha Transport Company.
(c) Oklahoma City Transport Company.
(d) Oklahoma Sanitation Department.

13. Where does the truck driver describe a dance where someone was killed in Chapter 2?
(a) Sewannee.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Shawnee.
(d) Sycamore.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ivy Wilson's wife's name?

2. How long did it take Uncle John to come out of his stupor after his wife died?

3. What highway is described as going from Clarksville and Ozark and Van Buren and Fort Smith through Arkansas in Chapter 12?

4. Approximately when did the Dust Bowl occur?

5. The narrator states in Chapter 11, "... the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only" what (117)?

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