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

2. Whose pigtails does Tom say he was pulling on the day he was baptized in Chapter 4?
(a) Annie Wilson's.
(b) Mae Rogers'.
(c) Susy Little's.
(d) Mary Smart's.

3. 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).
(a) Simile.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Literary allusion.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What sin does Casy say he committed after his fervent prayer meetings in Chapter 4?
(a) He overate.
(b) He felt wrath for his constituents.
(c) He smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey.
(d) He had sex with girls in the grass.

5. What symbolism is evoked by the turtle in Chapter 3?
(a) The turtle represents rebellion against the norm.
(b) The turtle represents corporate greed.
(c) The turtle represents the struggle to persist.
(d) The turtle represents the desire for revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rose of Sharon married to?

2. What book does Tom say he mixes up with Scripture in Chapter 10?

3. How long did it take Uncle John to come out of his stupor after his wife died?

4. 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)?

5. How long does Tom estimate it will take the Joads to reach their destination in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Whom do Jim and Tom encounter at the Joad homestead in Chapter 6? How is this character described?

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

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

8. How are the used car lot owners described in Chapter 7?

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

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

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