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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Uncle John's wife presumably die from?
(a) A fall.
(b) A brain aneurism.
(c) A burst appendix.
(d) Suicide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom describe Uncle John leaving on his pillow when he was a kid in Chapter 8?

2. For how long has Tom Joad been in prison when he is released?

3. Who is the tractor driver's father in Chapter 5?

4. The narrator describes Highway 66 as "the mother road, the road of" what, in Chapter 12 (119)?

5. What kind of preacher does Casy say he was in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tom reveal about his past in Chapter 2?

2. Why do the Joads and Wilsons decide to travel together?

3. What is the purpose of the author's focus on the turtle in Chapter 3?

4. What were the causes of the Dust Bowl in America?

5. How are the circumstances of the landowners described in Chapter 5?

6. What is the spanse of Highway 66? What is the status of this road today?

7. What does the narrator describe the tenant farmers doing with their belongings in Chapter 9?

8. Why did Jim Casy give up the ministry?

9. How does the narrator describe the exchange between the migrant and the tire-seller in Chapter 12?

10. What hopes and aspirations do the Joad family members have for California before they set out?

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