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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 does Tom say his father strung up in a tree that he points out in the fields in Chapter 8?
(a) A chicken.
(b) A coyote.
(c) A snake.
(d) A gopher.

2. Where did Aunt Sadie get the china dog that is described in Chapter 9?
(a) The St. Louis Fair.
(b) New York City.
(c) The Illinois State Fair.
(d) Coney Island.

3. What highway is described as going from Clarksville and Ozark and Van Buren and Fort Smith through Arkansas in Chapter 12?
(a) Highway 101.
(b) Highway 45.
(c) Highway 62.
(d) Highway 34.

4. Who does Tom say visited at McAlester last Christmas with cornet music in Chapter 10?
(a) The Red Cross.
(b) The Girl Scouts of America.
(c) The Salvation Army.
(d) The Lutheran Church.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does Tom Joad first encounter Jim Casy in Chapter 4?

5. What does Grampa Joad die from in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jim Casy give up the ministry?

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

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

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

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

6. What do the banks represent in the novel?

7. Why does Jim Casy ask to accompany the Joads? Why do they let him?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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