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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose music does Bill the truck driver's friend play on the phonograph in Chapter 15?
(a) Frank Sinatra's.
(b) Bart Freeman's.
(c) Miles Davis's.
(d) Bing Crosby's.

2. What musical instrument does the narrator in Chapter 23 describe as rare and hard to learn?
(a) A fiddle.
(b) A flute.
(c) A trumpet.
(d) A banjo.

3. What is the name of the neighbors to the Joads at the cotton ranch in Chapter 28?
(a) The Wainwrights.
(b) The Wilsons.
(c) The Kimbles.
(d) The Charlestons.

4. By what name does the waitress call the truck driver Bill in Chapter 15?
(a) Bully Bill.
(b) Bill the Bouncer.
(c) Bill the Speedster.
(d) Big Bill the Rat.

5. Who in the migrant camps generally are responsible for pitching the tents and bringing down the beds, according to the narrator in Chapter 17?
(a) The children.
(b) The men.
(c) The women.
(d) The elders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose of Sharon say Connie wants to study by correspondence in Chapter 16?

2. What does the guard of the Weedpatch camp say that the Central Committee voted regarding preachers in the camp?

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

4. What setting is described as "the top of it all" in Arizona in Chapter 18 (201)?

5. Who is the chairman of the Central Committee at the Weedpatch camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the farm owners benefit from the masses of the arriving Okies?

2. What cruelty does the narrator describe in Chapter 25?

3. Why does Ma refuse to leave Tom and Jim behind in Chapter 16?

4. What does Ruthie do that puts Tom in danger in Chapter 28?

5. What does the committe discover before the Weedpatch dance in Chapter 24?

6. Who are the scientists that are described in Chapter 25?

7. What leads to Jim's death and Tom's flight in Chapter 26?

8. How do the families respond when they learn of Al's proposal for marriage with Aggie? Why?

9. What do the Joads and Wilsons discover from the migrant who is returning east at the camp in Chapter 18?

10. Who is Floyd Knowles and why is he almost killed?

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