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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What book does Ma say Tom's Pa's pa confused with Scripture in Chapter 10?
(a) The Virgen de Fatima.
(b) A Lost World.
(c) Dr. Miles' Almanac.
(d) The Winning of Barbara Worth.

3. What does Tom describe Uncle John leaving on his pillow when he was a kid in Chapter 8?
(a) A pack of gum.
(b) A walnut.
(c) A candy cane.
(d) A quarter.

4. What does Mrs. Wilson give Tom a paper from to write a note regarding Grampa's death when they bury him?
(a) Her Bible.
(b) A notepad.
(c) Her diary.
(d) A novel.

5. Who is Rose of Sharon married to?
(a) Max.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Mark.
(d) Connie.

6. Where did Aunt Sadie get the china dog that is described in Chapter 9?
(a) New York City.
(b) Coney Island.
(c) The Illinois State Fair.
(d) The St. Louis Fair.

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

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

9. 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) Assonance.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Simile.

10. What does the driver of the truck do as it approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?
(a) It swerves to hit it.
(b) It stops and backs over the turtle.
(c) It stops and honks.
(d) It swerves to avoid it.

11. Who does Tom say visited at McAlester last Christmas with cornet music in Chapter 10?
(a) The Lutheran Church.
(b) The Salvation Army.
(c) The Girl Scouts of America.
(d) The Red Cross.

12. Who was the mother of the baby that was eaten by a pig next to the Joads'?
(a) Molly Rogers.
(b) Anna Winter.
(c) Dolly Parkins.
(d) Milly Jacobs.

13. What is the name of the used car salesman that is addressed by the boss in Chapter 7?
(a) Pete.
(b) Jim.
(c) Jack.
(d) Mark.

14. What does the willow tree hang over at the Joad homestead?
(a) The corn field.
(b) The shed.
(c) The rose garden.
(d) The pig pen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary device is used in the following sentence from Chapter 2? "His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells" (9).

2. What does Tom find on the sink shelf in the kitchen when he enters his abandoned homestead in Chapter 6?

3. Who is driving the car in the beginning of Chapter 13?

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

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

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