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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. When the narrator describes a tractor in Chapter 11, he states, "The heat goes out of it like the living heat that leaves a corpse" (117). What literary device is employed in this sentence?
2. What does Tom say his father strung up in a tree that he points out in the fields in Chapter 8?
3. Who is driving the car in the beginning of Chapter 13?
4. Who is the tractor driver's father in Chapter 5?
5. What kind of animal does Casy describe as clinging with its jaws until one pries its head apart with a screwdriver in Chapter 13?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do the Joads and Wilsons decide to travel together?
2. What information is related on the handbills that are discussed in Chapter 10?
3. How does the narrator describe the vacant farmsteads in Chapter 11?
4. How does Tom's family respond upon seeing him in Chapter 8?
5. Why did Jim Casy give up the ministry?
6. What symbolism is evoked by the tractors in Chapter 11?
7. What do the banks represent in the novel?
8. What information does Tom reveal about Uncle John in Chapter 8?
9. Why does Jim Casy ask to accompany the Joads? Why do they let him?
10. Who are Tom's siblings and how old are they?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the different settings of roadside diners and restaurants that frequently arise in the novel. Why does the author make these interludes? What characters are described at the diners? Why are truck drivers so revered in these settings?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the themes of family and community in The Grapes of Wrath. What are the meanings and importance of family and community to the characters in the novel? What are the benefits of community? What are the drawbacks?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the theme of greed in The Grapes of Wrath. How does the author develop this theme through the characters in the novel? How is this theme supported through symbolism and imagery? What do statement do you think the author is making regarding greed? Why?
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