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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. Where does one of the tenants at Weedpatch describe the employees from the rubber companies going unionized in Chapter 24?
(a) Memphis.
(b) New York.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Akron.

2. What musical instrument does the narrator in Chapter 23 describe as rare and hard to learn?
(a) A fiddle.
(b) A flute.
(c) A banjo.
(d) A trumpet.

3. By what name are the Okies' encampments called?
(a) Hoovervilles.
(b) Country Villages.
(c) Weedpatches.
(d) Ghettos.

4. Who were the only people in California that were happy about the Okies pouring in, according to the narrator in Chapter 21?
(a) The hotel owners.
(b) The shop owners.
(c) The farm owners.
(d) The gold panners.

5. In Chapter 16, the narrator says of the Joads and Wilsons, "Two days the families were in flight, but on the third the land was too huge for them and they settled into a new technique of living; the highways became their home and movement their medium of" what (164)?
(a) "Expression."
(b) "Observance."
(c) "Prayer."
(d) "Solitude."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Joads go to buy a new tin stove and overalls in Chapter 28?

2. By what name does the waitress call the truck driver Bill in Chapter 15?

3. What does the guard of the Weedpatch camp say that the Central Committee voted regarding preachers in the camp?

4. The narrator in Chapter 19 says that "represssion works only to" do what (238)?

5. What sound awakens Tom as he sleeps in the truck on the Joads' first night at the Weedpatch camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the migrant societies entertain themselves, according to the narrator in Chapter 23?

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

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

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

6. How do the families respond when they learn of Al's proposal for marriage with Aggie? Why?

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

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

9. What departures are seen in Chapter 18? Who continues west?

10. What amenties are provided at the Weedpatch camp and how do the Joads respond to finding these amenities?

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