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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 the 40-year-old woman do as she approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?
(a) She stops and honks.
(b) She swerves to avoid it.
(c) She swerves to hit it.
(d) She stops her car and takes the turtle.

2. What does Grampa Joad die from in Chapter 13?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A stroke.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Gunshot wound.

3. How does the narrator describe the sun in Chapter 1?
(a) Yello.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Gray.

4. During what historical era does The Grapes of Wrath take place?
(a) The Renaissance.
(b) The Victorian Era.
(c) The Roaring Twenties.
(d) The Great Depression.

5. What kind of preacher does Casy say he was in Chapter 4?
(a) An Anglican.
(b) A Snake Charmer.
(c) A Burning Busher.
(d) A Healer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ivy Wilson's wife's name?

2. Why does Tom take the turtle with him in Chapter 4?

3. What crop is growing across Tom's homestead when he arrives in Chapter 6?

4. Who is driving the car in the beginning of Chapter 13?

5. Where does the truck driver describe a dance where someone was killed in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to the Joads' dog at the gas station in Chapter 13?

3. What do the banks represent in the novel?

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

5. Why does Tom take the turtle with him in Chapter 4?

6. What symbolism is evoked by the tractors in Chapter 11?

7. Why did Jim Casy give up the ministry?

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

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

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

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