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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. How long ago does Grampa say it was that his brother went out West to California in Chapter 10?
(a) 40 years ago.
(b) 15 years ago.
(c) 10 years ago.
(d) 20 years ago.

2. What is the name of the dog that Tom recognizes among the others in Chapter 8?
(a) Mittens.
(b) Johnny.
(c) Flash.
(d) Pete.

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

4. What does the driver of the truck do as it approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?
(a) It stops and backs over the turtle.
(b) It swerves to avoid it.
(c) It swerves to hit it.
(d) It stops and honks.

5. When the narrator describes a tractor in Chapter 11, he states, "The heat goes out of it like the living heat that leaves a corpse" (117). What literary device is employed in this sentence?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Joads' dog in Chapter 13?

2. What is the pretty town that is described on the border of California in Chapter 12?

3. What sin does Casy say he committed after his fervent prayer meetings in Chapter 4?

4. How does the narrator describe the sun in Chapter 1?

5. What does the willow tree hang over at the Joad homestead?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jim Casy give up the ministry?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Where does Tom Joad solicit a ride in Chapter 2? Who gives him a ride?

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

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

10. How does the narrator describe the spirit of man in Chapter 14?

(see the answer keys)

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