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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. Where does the truck driver describe a dance where someone was killed in Chapter 2?
2. What does the truck driver say he is hoping to study through correspondence school in Chapter 2?
3. When the narrator describes a tractor in Chapter 11, he states, "The heat goes out of it like the living heat that leaves a corpse" (117). What literary device is employed in this sentence?
4. How many cars a day does the man at the gas station say he sees pass on their way to move West in Chapter 13?
5. What is printed on the side of the red truck outside the roadside restaurant in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What hopes and aspirations do the Joad family members have for California before they set out?
2. How does Tom's family respond upon seeing him in Chapter 8?
3. What do the banks represent in the novel?
4. How are the used car lot owners described in Chapter 7?
5. How does Grampa die? Where does he die?
6. What does Tom discover when he reaches his family's homestead in Chapter 6?
7. Where does Tom Joad solicit a ride in Chapter 2? Who gives him a ride?
8. What symbolism is evoked by the tractors in Chapter 11?
9. How does the narrator describe the exchange between the migrant and the tire-seller in Chapter 12?
10. Why did Jim Casy give up the ministry?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the different settings of roadside diners and restaurants that frequently arise in the novel. Why does the author make these interludes? What characters are described at the diners? Why are truck drivers so revered in these settings?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the character of Al Joad. How old is Al? What are Al's main objectives in the novel? Whom does Al marry and how does his character change in the course of the story?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and analyze the character of Jim Casy in the novel. Why did Casy stop preaching? Where does he first encounter Tom? Why does Casy go west along with the Joads?
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