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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jule Vitela's heritage described as in Chapter 24?
(a) Full-blooded Cherokee.
(b) Half black.
(c) Mexican.
(d) Half Cherokee.

2. What is the name of the neighbors to the Joads at the cotton ranch in Chapter 28?
(a) The Charlestons.
(b) The Wainwrights.
(c) The Kimbles.
(d) The Wilsons.

3. What sound awakens Tom as he sleeps in the truck on the Joads' first night at the Weedpatch camp?
(a) Howling wolves.
(b) Howling coyotes.
(c) Clashing iron.
(d) Gunshots.

4. Who were the only people in California that were happy about the Okies pouring in, according to the narrator in Chapter 21?
(a) The farm owners.
(b) The hotel owners.
(c) The shop owners.
(d) The gold panners.

5. The stranger and his son that meets the Joads in the river in Chapter 18 tells them, "Well, Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're" what (205)?
(a) "A worse plight to humanity than roaches."
(b) "A thieving jackass bandit."
(c) "A dirty son-of-a-bitch."
(d) "A nobody."

6. What setting is described as "the top of it all" in Arizona in Chapter 18 (201)?
(a) Twin Peaks.
(b) Rogers.
(c) Montague.
(d) Flagstaff.

7. What song is played for the migrants to square dance to at the dance in Chapter 24?
(a) "Chicken Reel."
(b) "Dosey Do."
(c) "Grab and Dance."
(d) "Mountain Banjo Song."

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

9. 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.

10. What does Ruthie describe in the picture she saw of the desert once in Chapter 18?
(a) Palm trees.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Cacti.
(d) Bones.

11. Whose music does Bill the truck driver's friend play on the phonograph in Chapter 15?
(a) Miles Davis's.
(b) Bing Crosby's.
(c) Bart Freeman's.
(d) Frank Sinatra's.

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

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

14. How much does the farmer at the cotton ranch charge the workers for a bag for picking in Chapter 27?
(a) $1.
(b) $2.
(c) $4.
(d) $5.

15. The narrator states in Chapter 19, "And while the Californians wanted many things, accumulation, social success, amusement, luxury, and a curious banking security, the new barbarians wanted only two things..." (233). What were the two things that the Okies wanted?
(a) Land and food.
(b) Money and security.
(c) Success and adventure.
(d) Family and friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Timothy Wallace say he had to sell his car for in Chapter 22?

2. In what type of housing unit do the Joads live while working cotton in Chapter 28?

3. In Chapter 16, the narrator says of the Joads and Wilsons, "Two days the families were in flight, but on the third the land was too huge for them and they settled into a new technique of living; the highways became their home and movement their medium of" what (164)?

4. Who tells the waitress to give the passing migrants a loaf of bread in Chapter 15?

5. What does the narrator say that the owners followed by importing "slaves" in Chapter 19?

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