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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 Ma give to Rose of Sharon to cheer her up in Chapter 26?
(a) A photograph.
(b) A pair of earrings.
(c) A ring.
(d) A seashell necklace.

2. What does the narrator describe as the only two punishments for breaking the unspoken laws within the migrant camps in Chapter 17?
(a) Imprisonment or public execution.
(b) Community service or ostracism.
(c) Enforced slavery or execution.
(d) A quick and murderous fight or ostracism.

3. How much did the job pay that Pa and Uncle John missed out on that morning in Chapter 24?
(a) 30 cents an hour.
(b) 40 cents an hour.
(c) 50 cents an hour.
(d) 20 cents an hour.

4. Who is the chairman of the entertainment at the Weedpatch camp?
(a) Michael Stay.
(b) Jack Wilson.
(c) James Watkins.
(d) Willie Eaton.

5. Who is the tenant at the Weedpatch camp that supposedly invited the three strangers to the dance in Chapter 24?
(a) Roderick.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Smith.
(d) James.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the border guard ask if the Joads have when they get to the high country of Arizona?

2. What does the narrator say that the owners followed by importing "slaves" in Chapter 19?

3. How much money does the man offer for picking cotton that Ma encounters on her way back to the camp after seeing Tom in Chapter 28?

4. Jim Casy says in Chapter 18, "I ain't tryin' to preach no sermon, but I never seen nobody that's busy as a prairie dog collectin' stuff that wasn't" what (207)?

5. What does Ruthie describe in the picture she saw of the desert once in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the migrant and his son ask for at the diner in Chapter 15? What do they receive?

2. Who are the scientists that are described in Chapter 25?

3. Why do the Joads leave the Weedpatch camp? Where do they go next?

4. How is the system of law and order developed among the migrant camps according to the narrator in Chapter 17?

5. How do the farm owners benefit from the masses of the arriving Okies?

6. What are the impacts of industrialization in agriculture according to the narrator in Chapter 21?

7. Who are the Joads' neighbors in Chapter 28? How are they described?

8. What cruelty does the narrator describe in Chapter 25?

9. What do the Joads and Wilsons discover from the migrant who is returning east at the camp in Chapter 18?

10. How is the plot of the law enforcement thwarted in Chapter 24?

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