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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. What is the tenant farmer holding as he watches the tractor wreck his home in Chapter 5?
2. Who drives the truck after the Joads leave the gas station in Chapter 13?
3. What does Grampa Joad die from in Chapter 13?
4. What literary device is used in the following sentence from Chapter 2? "His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells" (9).
5. What does Tom find on the sink shelf in the kitchen when he enters his abandoned homestead in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to the Joads' dog at the gas station in Chapter 13?
2. What does the narrator describe the tenant farmers doing with their belongings in Chapter 9?
3. How are the used car lot owners described in Chapter 7?
4. Whom do Jim and Tom encounter at the Joad homestead in Chapter 6? How is this character described?
5. What is the purpose of the author's focus on the turtle in Chapter 3?
6. What hopes and aspirations do the Joad family members have for California before they set out?
7. Why does Jim Casy ask to accompany the Joads? Why do they let him?
8. How does the narrator describe the vacant farmsteads in Chapter 11?
9. How does the narrator describe the exchange between the migrant and the tire-seller in Chapter 12?
10. Where does Tom Joad solicit a ride in Chapter 2? Who gives him a ride?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of wrath in the novel. When does the title of the novel directly appear in the text? In what context? How is this theme developed through character, setting, and symbolism?
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 and discuss the setting of the Weedpatch camp in the novel. Where do the Joads find the Weedpatch camp? How does this setting differ from their previous camp locations? Who do they meet at this setting?
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