The Grapes of Wrath

A

How does Grampa die?

(A) He has a stroke.

(B) He has a heart attack.

(C) He dies of old age.

(D) Noah kills him.

C

Why is Noah slightly deformed?

(A) Ma drank heavily during her pregnancy.

(B) A local corporation dumped pollutants into the water supply.

(C) Pa tried to deliver Noah by pulling him out with his bare hands.

(D) As a child, Noah was run over by a combine.

A

What is a "big cat"?

(A) A machine used by the banks to evict farmers

(B) The migrants' nickname for a policeman

(C) The policemen's nickname for a male Okie

(D) A terrible dust storm

C

During what decade did the Dust Bowl tragedy take place?

(A) The 1910s

(B) The 1920s

(C) The 1930s

(D) The 1940s

D

How many years was Tom in prison?

(A) 11

(B) 14

(C) 2

(D) 4

C

What does Uncle John give to children?

(A) Pennies

(B) Cracker Jack candy

(C) Gum

(D) Wooden soldiers

A

According to Chapter 19, who were the first Americans to settle in California?

(A) Squatters

(B) Middle-class businesspeople

(C) Gold diggers

(D) Cowboys

A

Who is given the task of burying Rose of Sharon's stillborn child?

(A) Uncle John

(B) Tom

(C) Pa Joad

(D) Agnes Wainwright

C

What are Al's main interests?

(A) Cars and clothes

(B) Music and girls

(C) Girls and cars

(D) Music and clothes

A

Where do the Joads leave Granma's corpse?

(A) A coroner's office

(B) A hospital morgue

(C) Under a sycamore tree

(D) By the banks of a stream

D

Which Joad child believes him- or herself to be the least loved by Ma and Pa?

(A) Rose of Sharon

(B) Tom

(C) Al

(D) Noah

B

What was Jim Casy's former occupation?

(A) Truck driver

(B) Preacher

(C) Ditch digger

(D) Mayor

D

How does Jim Casy die?

(A) He dies of heat exhaustion in the fields.

(B) He kills himself out of sheer despair.

(C) He dies of starvation.

(D) He dies in a fight during a workers' strike.

B

What do the citizens of California angrily call the migrants?

(A) Hobos

(B) Okies

(C) Riffraff

(D) Bonzos

D

At the end of the novel, who is the leader of the Joad family?

(A) Pa Joad

(B) Tom Joad

(C) Grampa Joad

(D) Ma Joad

B

Whom does Agnes Wainwright decide to marry?

(A) Tom

(B) Al

(C) Jim Casy

(D) Floyd Knowles

D

Who in the novel first proposes the idea of organizing the workers?

(A) Tom

(B) Al

(C) Jim Casy

(D) Floyd Knowles

B

Why does Pa's dam fail?

(A) Pa uses sand when he should have used mortar.

(B) A tree falls into it.

(C) The water simply rises too fast.

(D) Pa builds a good dam, but he builds it in a bad place.

D

Why does Ruthie reveal Tom's secret?

(A) She is jealous of her older brother.

(B) She talks in her sleep.

(C) She wants to frighten a policeman.

(D) She wants to impress a girl who is picking on her.

B

Who tells Tom his parents' whereabouts when he arrives at their deserted farm?

(A) Jim

(B) Muley Graves

(C) Winifred

(D) Mr. Huston

A

In what year did The Grapes of Wrath win a Pulitzer Prize?

(A) 1940

(B) 1936

(C) 1939

(D) 1962

C

Why does Ma fear that Winfield will grow up to be wild and uncontrollable?

(A) Since Noah left, he has been without a proper influence.

(B) Work camps are not a decent place to raise children.

(C) Without a proper home, he will become rootless and lose his sense of the importance of family.

(D) Manual labor is not good for such a young child.

B

Why do the other children ostracize Ruthie when she first arrives at the government camp?

(A) She is from Oklahoma.

(B) She bullies a girl on the croquet court.

(C) She is caught stealing at the general store.

(D) She is from a large family.

A

At the cotton farm, where do the Joads live?

(A) In a boxcar

(B) In a shack

(C) In a tent

(D) In a culvert

C

At the end of the novel, Ma explains to Pa that some people live "in jerks," while others live in "all one flow." This is her way of describing an essential difference between which two groups?

(A) Rich and poor

(B) Oklahomans and Californians

(C) Men and women

(D) Tenant farmers and landowners

C

What weather event does the first chapter describe?

(A) The Tri-State Tornado of 1925

(B) The Galveston Hurricane of 1900

(C) The Dust Bowl

(D) The San Francisco Earthquake

D

Where has Tom Joad been released from just before he hitches a ride on a truck?

(A) Hospital

(B) Previous job

(C) Mental facility

(D) Jail

C

What is the name of the place that Tom Joad was released from?

(A) McDaniels

(B) McArthur

(C) McAlester

(D) McDonalds

C

Why did Tom Joad serve time in jail?

(A) Robbery

(B) Arson

(C) Homicide

(D) Rape

A

What animal does Tom Joad pick up in the road?

(A) Turtle

(B) Dog

(C) Rabbit

(D) Cat

B

Whom does Tom Joad meet on his way home from jail?

(A) Al Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Pa Joad

(D) Ma Joad

B

How did Jim Casy take advantage of his position of authority?

(A) Financial embezzlement

(B) Sexual relationships

(C) Alcohol bootlegging

(D) Labor manipulation

B

Which of the following is NOT true of the murder Tom Joad committed?

(A) He was in a fight.

(B) He was attacking a family member.

(C) He hit his opponent with a shovel.

(D) He was stabbed.

D

How did the Joads acquire their house?

(A) They built it.

(B) They bought it from a land agent.

(C) They bought it from a friend.

(D) They stole it.

D

Why is Tom Joad out of jail?

(A) He escaped.

(B) His sentence is finished.

(C) He was found innocent.

(D) He has been released on parole.

C

What pushed the Oklahoma tenants off of their land?

(A) Organized crime

(B) Migrant workers

(C) Industrialized farming

(D) Health precautions

A

In the novel, what inanimate object is frequently referred to as a "monster?"

(A) Bank

(B) Church

(C) Hospital

(D) Farm

D

Where do the landowners suggest that the Oklahoma tenants go?

(A) New York

(B) Oregon

(C) Boston

(D) California

C

Whom would Muley NOT describe as one of "Them sons-a-bitches?"

(A) Industrial agriculture

(B) "Owner men"

(C) Tom Joad

(D) Banks

A

What does Tom Joad see when he first arrives at his home?

(A) The dilapidated, collapsed shell of his house

(B) The foundation of his demolished house

(C) The new family that has moved into his home

(D) His whole family, eagerly awaiting his arrival

A

What does Tom Joad infer when he sees that the scrap parts of the Joad house remain?

(A) There are no neighbors living in the area, because nobody has taken parts off the house.

(B) His family must have left to go visit him in jail, and will probably reach home very soon.

(C) His family must have been evicted.

(D) There must have been a fire that destroyed the house from the inside out.

D

Where is Joad's family, according to Muley?

(A) In New York

(B) In California

(C) En route to the prison

(D) At Uncle John's house

C

Why are the people being kicked off the land, according to Muley?

(A) Excessively high crime rate

(B) Voluntary and willing departures

(C) Efforts to increase profit margins

(D) Corrupt police force

D

What does Muley frequently call himself?

(A) Monster Man

(B) The Ol' Vigilante

(C) The Fighter

(D) Damn ol' graveyard ghos'

B

What does Casy decide he will do after Tom Joad reunites with his family?

(A) Say goodbye and move on

(B) Stay with Joad and his family, traveling wherever they travel

(C) Hitch-hike to California

(D) Stay on the land and begin preaching again

B

Why is the used car industry booming?

(A) People are hoping to sell cars for scrap metal.

(B) People are trying to move out to California.

(C) People are buying better cars using big business profits.

(D) People want to drive to different banks and talk to the employees.

B

When Joad arrives at his Uncle's house, what does he discover?

(A) His father has left his mother.

(B) His family is nearly ready to leave for California.

(C) His family has decided not to move to California.

(D) His family is not there.

D

How does Joad's mother react when she sees him for the first time?

(A) Overwhelmingly joy

(B) Fury that he was in jail in the first place

(C) Deep sadness and remorse

(D) Some joy, then control of her emotions

C

Which adjective best describes Noah's demeanor?

(A) Flamboyant

(B) Emotional

(C) Calm

(D) Quick to anger

A

How does the Joad family envision California?

(A) Filled with abundant produce that can be sold

(B) Dry and in a drought

(C) Dangerous and filled with possible enemies

(D) Filled with opportunities for easy fame

C

What is one reason why Tom Joad's younger brother, Al, admires Tom?

(A) He respects his parents.

(B) He escaped from jail.

(C) He killed a man.

(D) He has slept with many women.

D

What do the generic scenes, with unnamed characters, contribute to the novel?

(A) Insight into the mind of Tom Joad

(B) Unrealistic fantasies

(C) Slapstick Comedy

(D) Universality

D

An entire chapter describes what animal's attempt to cross a highway?

(A) A chicken

(B) A coyote

(C) A snake

(D) A turtle

B

Who is the author of the Grapes of Wrath?

(A) Ernest Hemingway

(B) John Steinbeck

(C) Justin Knowles

(D) Mark Twain

D

Why did Jim Casy resign from the ministry?

(A) He lost his faith in religion.

(B) He felt guilty about sleeping with women in his congregation.

(C) He was no longer speaking with conviction and honesty

(D) All of the above

A

Why does Muley Graves decide to stay in Oklahoma?

(A) He feels a kinship with the land and cannot bear to leave it.

(B) He needs some time away from his family.

(C) Leaving the state would violate his parole.

(D) He is in love with a local girl.

D

What is the source of Uncle John's drinking problem?

(A) Emotional trauma from serving in World War I

(B) The desire to have done more with his life

(C) A bitter divorce

(D) His wife's death

C

What is Grampa Joad's sudden death is brought on by?

(A) Malnutrition.

(B) A fatal infection.

(C) Heartbreak over leaving his Oklahoma land.

(D) An automobile accident.

A

Why does Grampa not receive a proper burial?

(A) The family does not have enough money to pay for a burial and still make it to California.

(B) The family fears they will be accused of foul play if they take Grampa's body to the police.

(C) No minister is available to conduct the service.

(D) Grampa was a curmudgeon and nobody liked him anyway.

B

Why is the gas station attendant rude to the Joads?

(A) Winfield steals a piece of candy.

(B) He is angry that people come to his station to beg and barter for fuel.

(C) Tom tries to bully him into lowering his prices.

(D) A carload of people swindled him before the Joads arrived.

C

What event occurs while the Joads are at the gas station?

(A) Grampa dies in the back of the van.

(B) Rose of Sharon gives birth.

(C) A passing car kills the family dog.

(D) Uncle John buys a bottle of liquor and gets drunk.

C

What is the original price of the candy Mae sells to the migrant children in the diner?

(A) One cent

(B) Three cents

(C) Five cents

(D) Ten cents

B

The mechanic that Tom and Casy meet at the junkyard has what kind of disability?

(A) He's deaf.

(B) He only has one eye.

(C) He's missing an arm.

(D) He's paralyzed from the waist down.

D

What does Noah decide to do upon arriving in California?

(A) Run off with a girl he just met.

(B) Hitch a ride with a family on their way back to Oklahoma.

(C) Get into a fight with another migrant.

(D) Leave the family and live off the river.

A

What happens to Casy at the Hooverville camp?

(A) He gets arrested after taking the blame for Tom during a fight.

(B) He comes down with an illness and can't travel.

(C) An argument with Ma forces him to leave the Joads.

(D) He has a religious epiphany and goes back to the church.

B

The old woman at the Weedpatch camp warns that Rose of Sharon's sins will cause her to

(A) Starve to death.

(B) Have a miscarriage.

(C) Lose her husband.

(D) Go to hell.

C

What does Tom do to force the family to flee Hooper Ranch?

(A) Insults the owners by calling them greedy

(B) Takes fruit without paying for it

(C) Clubs Jim Casy's killer

(D) Steals a car to go on a joyride

D

At the end of the novel, Tom leaves his family so that he can what?

(A) Avoid the shame that comes with not being able to provide for them.

(B) Write a book about his experiences.

(C) Find a woman to settle down with and have kids.

(D) Become a leader and set an example for all the displaced migrants.

B

What happens to the starving man whom the Joads meet in the final pages of the novel?

(A) He dies.

(B) Rose of Sharon breastfeeds him.

(C) He robs the Joads of all their possessions.

(D) An emergency relief team comes to rescue him.

A

Who said, "Use' ta be the family was fust. It ain't so now. It's anybody."?

(A) Ma

(B) Pa

(C) Tom

(D) Granma

(E) Ivy

C

Who said, "Somepin's happening. I went up an' I looked, an' the houses us all empty, an' the land is empty, an' this whole country is empty."?

(A) Ma

(B) Pa

(C) Reverend Casy

(D) Uncle John

(E) Granma

D

Who said, "They's gonna come a thing that's gonna change the whole country."?

(A) Uncle John

(B) Ma

(C) Pa

(D) Reverend Casy

(E) Tom

E

Who said, "Three dollars a day. Is that right?"?

(A) Ma

(B) Pa

(C) Tom

(D) Reverend Casy

(E) Tractor driver

A

Who said, "Besides, us folks takes a pride holdin' in."?

(A) Ma

(B) Pa

(C) Tom

(D) Reverend Casy

(E) Granma

AE

Who is being described?

The novel's protagonist, and Ma and Pa Joad's favorite son. He is good-natured and thoughtful and makes do with what life hands him. Even though he killed a man and has been separated from his family for four years, he does not waste his time with regrets. He lives fully for the present moment, which enables him to be a great source of vitality for the Joad family. A wise guide and fierce protector, he exhibits a moral certainty throughout the novel that imbues him with strength and resolve: he earns the awed respect of his family members as well as the workers he later organizes into unions.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

A

Who is being described?

She is introduced as a woman who knowingly and gladly fulfills her role as "the citadel of the family." She is the healer of the family's ills and the arbiter of its arguments, and her ability to perform these tasks grows as the novel progresses.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

AD

Who is being described?

He is an Oklahoma tenant farmer who has been evicted from his farm. A plainspoken, good-hearted man, he directs the effort to take the family to California. Once there, unable to find work and increasingly desperate, he finds himself looking to Ma Joad for strength and leadership, though he sometimes feels ashamed of his weaker position.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

B

Who is being described?

A former preacher who gave up his ministry out of a belief that all human experience is holy. Often the moral voice of the novel, he articulates many of its most important themes, among them the sanctity of the people and the essential unity of all mankind. A staunch friend of Tom Joad, he goes to prison in Tom's stead for a fight that erupts between laborers and the California police. He emerges a determined organizer of the migrant workers.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

C

Who is being described?

An impractical, petulant, and romantic young woman, she begins the journey to California pregnant with her first child. She and Connie have grand notions of making a life for themselves in a city. The harsh realities of migrant life soon disabuse Rose of Sharon of these ideas, however. Her husband abandons her, and her child is born dead. By the end of the novel, she matures considerably, and possesses, the reader learns with surprise, something of her mother's indomitable spirit and grace.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

BC

Who is being described?

The founder of the Joad farm, he is now old and infirm. Once possessed of a cruel and violent temper, his wickedness is now limited almost exclusively to his tongue. He delights in tormenting his wife and shocking others with sinful talk. Although his character serves largely to produce comical effect, he exhibits a very real and poignant connection to the land. The family is forced to drug him in order to get him to leave the homestead; removed from his natural element, however, he soon dies.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

D

Who is being described?

She is a pious Christian, who loves casting hellfire and damnation in her husband's direction. Her health deteriorates quickly after Grandpa's death; she dies just after the family reaches California.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

AB

Who is being described?

Tom's younger brother, a sixteen-year-old boy obsessed with cars and girls. He is vain and cocky but an extremely competent mechanic, and his expertise proves vital in bringing the Joads, as well as the Wilsons, to California. He idolizes Tom, but by the end of the novel he has become his own man. When he falls in love with a girl named Agnes Wainwright at a cotton plantation where they are working, he decides to stay with her rather than leaving with his family.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

BE

Who is being described?

A couple traveling to California whom the Joads meet on Highway 66, just before Grampa's death. They lend the Joads their tent so that Grampa can have a comfortable place to die. The Joads return the couple's kindness by fixing their broken-down car. Hoping to make the trip easier, the two families combine forces, traveling together until health concerns force them to stop.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

BD

Who is being described?

Rose of Sharon's husband, he is an unrealistic dreamer who abandons the Joads after they reach California. This act of selfishness and immaturity surprises no one but his naïve wife.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

ABC

Who is being described?

Tom's older brother. He has been slightly deformed since his birth: Pa Joad had to perform the delivery and, panicking, tried to pull him out forcibly. Slow and quiet, he leaves his family behind at a stream near the California border, telling Tom that he feels his parents do not love him as much as they love the other children.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

ABE

Who is being described?

He refused to fetch a doctor for his pregnant wife when she complained of stomach pains. He has never forgiven himself for her death, and he often dwells heavily on the negligence he considers a sin.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

CE

Who is being described?

She has a fiery relationship to her brother. The two are intensely dependent upon one another and fiercely competitive. When she brags to another child that her brother has killed two men, she inadvertently puts Tom's life in danger, forcing him to flee.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

CD

Who is being described?

He is the youngest of the Joad children. Ma worries for his well-being, fearing that without a proper home he will grow up to be wild and rootless.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

BCD

Who is being described?

The migrant worker who first inspires Tom and Casy to work for labor organization. His outspokenness sparks a scuffle with the police in which Casy is arrested.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

AC

Who is being described?

One of the Joads' Oklahoma neighbors. When the bank evicts his family, he refuses to leave his land. Instead, he lets his wife and children move to California without him and stays behind to live outdoors. When he comes upon Tom at the abandoned Joad farm, he directs the young man to his Uncle John's.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

ABD

Who is being described?

The daughter of the couple who shares the Joads' boxcar toward the end of the novel. She becomes engaged to Al, who leaves his family in order to stay with her.

(A) Ma Joad

(B) Jim Casy

(C) Rose of Sharon

(D) Grandma Joad

(AB) Al Joad

(AC) Muley Graves

(AD) Pa Joad

(AE) Tom Joad

(BC) Grandpa Joad

(BD) Connie

(BE) Ivy and Sairy Wilson

(CD) Winfield Joad

(CE) Ruthie Joad

(ABC) Noah Joad

(ABD) Agnes Wainwright

(ABE) Uncle John

(BCD) Floyd Knowles

E

What are possible themes of the novel?

(A) Man's Inhumanity to Man

(B) The Saving Power of Family and Fellowship

(C) The Dignity of Wrath

(D) The Multiplying Effects of Selfishness and Altruism

(E) All of the Above

C

Which of the following is an example of symbolism?

(A) Rose of Sharon's Pregnancy

(B) The death of the Joads' dog

(C) Both A and B

(D) None of the Above

A

Steinbeck makes many bible references.

(A) True

(B) False

B (20,000 people for every 800 available jobs)

10,000 people show up for every 800 jobs that are available.

(A) True

(B) False

B (more friendly)

Government-run camps are less friendly to the Joads.

(A) True

(B) False

A

Rose of Sharon increases in maturity throughout the novel.

(A) True

(B) False

A

The end of the cotton season means the end of work.

(A) True

(B) False

B (it is)

The rain is not strong enough to flood the boxcar.

(A) True

(B) False

A

Ma develops into the new leader of the Joad family.

(A) True

(B) False