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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far are the Joads and Wilsons from Albuquerque when the touring car breaks down in Chapter 16?
(a) 40 miles.
(b) 200 miles.
(c) 75 miles.
(d) 20 miles.

2. Of whom does Tom say in Chapter 8, "He's gettin' screwy like a gopher, livin' like he does" (69)?
(a) Muley.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Pete.
(d) Roger.

3. Who is the tenant at the Weedpatch camp that supposedly invited the three strangers to the dance in Chapter 24?
(a) Roderick.
(b) James.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Smith.

4. 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) "Prayer."
(b) "Expression."
(c) "Observance."
(d) "Solitude."

5. What does the used car lot owner wish he had a thousand of in Chapter 7?
(a) Model-T's.
(b) Cadillacs.
(c) Jalopies.
(d) Model-A's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song is played for the migrants to square dance to at the dance in Chapter 24?

2. What does Tom say his father strung up in a tree that he points out in the fields in Chapter 8?

3. Of what does one of the listeners say he would "cord 'em up around me like wood, an I'd eat my way out" if he were rich in Chapter 23?

4. How long did it take Uncle John to come out of his stupor after his wife died?

5. Who drives the touring car as the Joads and Wilsons cross New Mexico in Chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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