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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 Ruthie beg Ma to get for her and Winfield at the store in Chapter 28?
(a) Gumdrops.
(b) Milk.
(c) Cracker Jacks.
(d) Candy canes.

2. What musical instrument does the narrator describe as being easy to carry in Chapter 23?
(a) A banjo.
(b) A harmonica.
(c) A flute.
(d) A trumpet.

3. Where does the man at the migrant camp say he and his wife are going up north while he works on his car in Chapter 20?
(a) Montague.
(b) Redding.
(c) Eureka.
(d) Salinas.

4. What does the narrator say that the owners followed by importing "slaves" in Chapter 19?
(a) France.
(b) Israel.
(c) Rome.
(d) Germany.

5. Where does the man on the highway tell the Joads to go work picking peaches in Chapter 26?
(a) Double R Ranch.
(b) Rossfield Ranch.
(c) Hooper ranch.
(d) Rogers Ranch.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does it cost the Joads to stay at the Weedpatch camp weekly?

2. What does Uncle John say he knows a guy growing crops of in Tulare in Chapter 26?

3. Who in the migrant camps generally are responsible for pitching the tents and bringing down the beds, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?

4. Who were the only people in California that were happy about the Okies pouring in, according to the narrator in Chapter 21?

5. Ma tells Tom in the beginning of Chapter 26 that he has no right to get what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Floyd Knowles and why is he almost killed?

2. What are Rose of Sharon's hopes for the new land in California in Chapter 16?

3. What does "Hooverville" refer to in the text and historically?

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

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

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

7. What does Ruthie do that puts Tom in danger in Chapter 28?

8. How is the Joads' new home described in Chapter 28?

9. What are Al's objectives at the Weedpatch camp's Saturday dance?

10. Why did the residents of California hate the migrants when they arrived, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?

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