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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long ago does Grampa say it was that his brother went out West to California in Chapter 10?
2. How many acres does Tom Joad say his father owns in Chapter 2?
3. What does the sticker on the windshield of the truck say in Chapter 2?
4. What does the 40-year-old woman do as she approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?
5. How are Tom Joad's clothes described in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the used car lot owners described in Chapter 7?
2. What is the spanse of Highway 66? What is the status of this road today?
3. Where does Tom Joad solicit a ride in Chapter 2? Who gives him a ride?
4. Whom do Jim and Tom encounter at the Joad homestead in Chapter 6? How is this character described?
5. Why does Jim Casy ask to accompany the Joads? Why do they let him?
6. Why did Jim Casy give up the ministry?
7. How does Grampa die? Where does he die?
8. What hopes and aspirations do the Joad family members have for California before they set out?
9. How does the narrator describe the exchange between the migrant and the tire-seller in Chapter 12?
10. Where does Tom encounter Jim Casy? What is Casy doing when he encounters Tom?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the narrative style of The Grapes of Wrath. From what narrative point of view is the novel related? How does the author indicate shifts in this narrative perspective? How do you think the novel would differ if it were related in a different narrative style?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the characters of Ivy and Sairy Wilson. Where do they Joads meet the Wilsons? Why do these families decide to travel together? Where do the Joads and the Wilsons part? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the setting of Oklahoma as depicted in the novel. When did the dust storms begin in Oklahoma? What impacts did they have on the region agriculturally? How did the Dust Bowl affect the farmers of the land?
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