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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Tom describe having sex in a barn when he brought a heifer to mate with a bull in Chapter 8?
(a) Willy Feely.
(b) Cane Rogers.
(c) Gerald Smith.
(d) Jack Simpson.

2. What does the driver of the truck do as it approaches the turtle on the highway in Chapter 3?
(a) It swerves to hit it.
(b) It swerves to avoid it.
(c) It stops and honks.
(d) It stops and backs over the turtle.

3. What setting is described as where the swallows nest that Tom visits before leaving for California in Chapter 10?
(a) The shed.
(b) The willow tree.
(c) The red bank.
(d) The roof.

4. Where did Aunt Sadie get the china dog that is described in Chapter 9?
(a) The Illinois State Fair.
(b) The St. Louis Fair.
(c) New York City.
(d) Coney Island.

5. How many people were in the family that was picked up by a sedan that pulled their trailer to California, according to the narrator in Chapter 12?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

6. What do the tractors in the novel represent symbolically?
(a) The birth of innocence.
(b) The Industrial Age.
(c) The accomplishments of intelligence.
(d) The education system.

7. 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).
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Literary allusion.

8. What is the pretty town that is described on the border of California in Chapter 12?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Needles.
(c) Fremont.
(d) Wilkins.

9. What does the truck driver say he is hoping to study through correspondence school in Chapter 2?
(a) Banking management.
(b) Radios.
(c) Mechanical engineering.
(d) Agriculture.

10. Where does Tom Joad first encounter Jim Casy in Chapter 4?
(a) At the post office.
(b) Under a willow tree.
(c) At the movie theater.
(d) In a cemetary.

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

12. What does the willow tree hang over at the Joad homestead?
(a) The pig pen.
(b) The shed.
(c) The corn field.
(d) The rose garden.

13. What book does the author reference in Chapter 9?
(a) Tomorrow's Road.
(b) To Have and Have Not.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) Pilgrim's Progress.

14. Whose pigtails does Tom say he was pulling on the day he was baptized in Chapter 4?
(a) Mary Smart's.
(b) Mae Rogers'.
(c) Susy Little's.
(d) Annie Wilson's.

15. From what narrative point of view is The Grapes of Wrath related?
(a) Fourth person.
(b) First person.
(c) Seond person.
(d) Third person.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in Chapter 11, "... the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only" what (117)?

2. What does Tom find on the sink shelf in the kitchen when he enters his abandoned homestead in Chapter 6?

3. Where does the truck driver describe a dance where someone was killed in Chapter 2?

4. What symbolism is evoked by the turtle in Chapter 3?

5. What is Ivy Wilson's wife's name?

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