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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 does Ruthie describe in the picture she saw of the desert once in Chapter 18?
2. Where does the man on the highway tell the Joads to go work picking peaches in Chapter 26?
3. What does Ma give to Rose of Sharon to cheer her up in Chapter 26?
4. Who in the migrant camps generally are responsible for pitching the tents and bringing down the beds, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?
5. What does Winfield say he hit a boy at the camp that day in Chapter 26?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Mae described in Chapter 15? Who is she excited to see?
2. What are the impacts of industrialization in agriculture according to the narrator in Chapter 21?
3. What amenties are provided at the Weedpatch camp and how do the Joads respond to finding these amenities?
4. Why does Ma refuse to leave Tom and Jim behind in Chapter 16?
5. What do the Joads and Wilsons discover from the migrant who is returning east at the camp in Chapter 18?
6. Why did the residents of California hate the migrants when they arrived, according to the narrator in Chapter 19?
7. Where is the Weedpatch camp located and how do the Joads find it?
8. What does "Hooverville" refer to in the text and historically?
9. How is the system of law and order developed among the migrant camps according to the narrator in Chapter 17?
10. Who is Floyd Knowles and why is he almost killed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What are examples of foreshadowing used by the author to indicate that the Joads' perceptions of California are not based in reality? What characters do the Joads meet that indicate the lack of jobs in the region? How do the Joads respond to these forebodings?
Essay Topic 3
How are the Okies perceived by the general populace in California? Why? Who benefits from the arrival of the Okies? How?
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