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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. 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) Pete.
(d) Jackson.

2. What is referred to as "the monster" in Chapter 5 (36)?
(a) The government.
(b) The bank.
(c) The tenant farmers.
(d) Religion.

3. Highway 66 is described as what in the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) The Trail of Tears.
(b) The road to Shangri La.
(c) The road to the forgotten land.
(d) The main migrant road.

4. What does Tom tell the gas station owner will be the cause for him to move too in Chapter 13?
(a) The incoming technology.
(b) The lack of produce.
(c) The crops.
(d) The yellow gas stations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What does Tom say his father strung up in a tree that he points out in the fields in Chapter 8?

3. Who was the mother of the baby that was eaten by a pig next to the Joads'?

4. What is the name of the dog that Tom recognizes among the others in Chapter 8?

5. Who does Tom describe having sex in a barn when he brought a heifer to mate with a bull in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Grampa die? Where does he die?

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

4. What information does Tom reveal about Uncle John in Chapter 8?

5. How does the narrator describe the vacant farmsteads in Chapter 11?

6. What does Tom discover when he reaches his family's homestead in Chapter 6?

7. Describe the setting of Oklahoma as introduced in Chapter 1. What are the circumstances of the inhabitants here?

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

9. What information is related on the handbills that are discussed in Chapter 10?

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

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