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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. Where is Ivy Wilson traveling West from?

2. What crop is growing across Tom's homestead when he arrives in Chapter 6?

3. How many cars a day does the man at the gas station say he sees pass on their way to move West in Chapter 13?

4. What do Winfield and Ruthie bring back to the car at the gas station in Chapter 13?

5. Who drives the truck after the Joads leave the gas station in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the purpose of the author's focus on the turtle in Chapter 3?

2. What does the narrator describe the tenant farmers doing with their belongings in Chapter 9?

3. Why did Jim Casy give up the ministry?

4. What is the spanse of Highway 66? What is the status of this road today?

5. How are the used car lot owners described in Chapter 7?

6. How does the narrator describe the exchange between the migrant and the tire-seller in Chapter 12?

7. What do the banks represent in the novel?

8. Whom do Jim and Tom encounter at the Joad homestead in Chapter 6? How is this character described?

9. What information is related on the handbills that are discussed in Chapter 10?

10. How are the circumstances of the landowners described in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the Okies perceived by the general populace in California? Why? Who benefits from the arrival of the Okies? How?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the character of Jim Casy in the novel. Why did Casy stop preaching? Where does he first encounter Tom? Why does Casy go west along with the Joads?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the setting of Oklahoma as depicted in the novel. When did the dust storms begin in Oklahoma? What impacts did they have on the region agriculturally? How did the Dust Bowl affect the farmers of the land?

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