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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator describe as the only two punishments for breaking the unspoken laws within the migrant camps in Chapter 17?
(a) Community service or ostracism.
(b) Enforced slavery or execution.
(c) A quick and murderous fight or ostracism.
(d) Imprisonment or public execution.

2. About how long does Al tell his girlfriend the Joads will be gone up north in Chapter 26?
(a) Two months.
(b) A year.
(c) A month.
(d) Six months.

3. Ma tells Tom in the beginning of Chapter 26 that he has no right to get what?
(a) Boisterous.
(b) Sullen.
(c) Angry.
(d) Discouraged.

4. Where do the Joads go to the coroner's office in Chapter 20?
(a) Bakersfield.
(b) Barstow.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Fresno.

5. Where do the Joads and Wilsons stop to camp after crossing into California?
(a) Burney.
(b) Needles.
(c) Monmouth.
(d) Lassen.

6. On what day of the week is the dance held at the Weedpatch camp in Chapter 24?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Friday.

7. How much money does it cost the Joads to stay at the Weedpatch camp weekly?
(a) $3.
(b) $5.
(c) $4.
(d) $1.

8. To whom did California once belong, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
(a) Mexicans.
(b) Canadians.
(c) The French.
(d) Italians.

9. Jim Casy says in Chapter 18, "I ain't tryin' to preach no sermon, but I never seen nobody that's busy as a prairie dog collectin' stuff that wasn't" what (207)?
(a) "Disappointed."
(b) "A narcissist."
(c) "Powerful."
(d) "Married."

10. About how many tents and shacks are set up at the migrants' camp that the Joads go to after seeing the coroner in Chapter 20?
(a) 40.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 60.

11. What does the guard of the Weedpatch camp say that the Central Committee voted regarding preachers in the camp?
(a) That no preacher was allowed inside the park at all.
(b) That no preacher was allowed to take up a collection.
(c) That preachers were welcome only on Sundays.
(d) That no preacher was allowed to sing.

12. Where does one of the tenants at Weedpatch describe the employees from the rubber companies going unionized in Chapter 24?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Akron.
(c) New York.
(d) Memphis.

13. By what time of day is the 20-acre cotton field completely picked in Chapter 28?
(a) 11:00 a.m.
(b) 9:00 p.m.
(c) 6:00 p.m.
(d) 4:00 p.m.

14. How old is the son that is described as killing a deputy with a .22 rifle in Lawrenceville in Chapter 19?
(a) 16.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 13.

15. Who is the waitress that the narrator says "really smiles with all her might at truck drivers" in Chapter 15 (155)?
(a) Mae.
(b) Jane.
(c) Marie.
(d) Sarah.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far are the Joads and Wilsons from Albuquerque when the touring car breaks down in Chapter 16?

2. What does the border guard ask if the Joads have when they get to the high country of Arizona?

3. What does Timothy Wallace define a vagrant as in Chapter 24 (334)?

4. What does Rose of Sharon say Connie wants to study by correspondence in Chapter 16?

5. Where do the Joads go to buy a new tin stove and overalls in Chapter 28?

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