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“Starvin’. Got sick in the cotton. He ain’t et for six days...Says he wasn’ hungry, or he jus’ et. Give me the food. Now he’s too weak. Can’t hardly move...Got to have soup or milk...He’s dyin’, I tell you! He’s starvin’ to death, I tell you.”
c. the boy in the barn
“Go down an’ tell ‘em. Go down in the street an’ rot an’ tell ‘em that way. That’s the way you can talk. Don’ even know if you was a boy or a girl. Ain’t gonna find out. Go on down now, an’ lay in the street. Maybe they’ll know then.”
a. Uncle John
“An’ what if we go away, or you go away, an’ we find out Aggie’s in trouble? We ain’t had no shame in our family.”
b. Mr. Wainwright
Steinbeck wrote that “repression” does what to the repressed?
b. strengthens them
How did Jim Casy wind up in jail?
a. He took the blame for Floyd Knowles and Tom.
What was the name of the government camp?
a. Weedpatch
Why did the Joads feel at home in the government camp?
d. The Joads were treated respectfully and there were no police.
Who was the Weedpatch camp manager?
b. Jim Rawley
What did Lisbeth Sandry tell Rose of Sharon?
a. She told her that sinning caused other girls to “drop” their babies.
Which was not true of the government camp?
c. Police were allowed to enter the camp if they had a good reason.
What happened at the Weedpatch dance?
d. Some disruptors snuck in to try to start a fight, but they were unsuccessful.
Steinbeck reported that what type of farm succeeded?
b. The large farms that owned canneries succeeded.
Why did farms allow fruit to rot or intentionally destroy it?
a. Destroying fruit kept the supply low which kept the prices high.
After one month of being in the Weedpatch camp, why did Ma purposefully make Pa angry?
a. She wanted to provoke him into making a decision about staying or leaving Weedpatch.
What was happening at the entrance gate to Hooper Ranch?
a. There were strikers yelling and waving signs.
Why was Ma disgruntled at the Hooper Ranch grocery store?
d. The grocery prices were inflated.
Which was not one of the differences between Weedpatch and Hooper Ranch?
c. Weedpatch peach-picking paid $1 a day and Hooper Ranch paid 5 cents per box.
Who was leading the strikers at the Hooper Ranch gate?
What did Casy learn from the beans incident in jail?
b. He learned that when everyone shouts together, they can provoke change.
How did Casy die?
d. He was struck in the head with a pick handle and his head was crushed.
How did Tom react to Casy’s death?
a. Tom grabbed the man’s pick handle and hit him several times.
Why did the Joads leave Hooper Ranch?
b. They needed to get Tom away from the scene of the crime
What job did the Joads do after they picked peaches?
d. They picked cotton.
What was the best feature of the boxcar that the Joads and Wainwrights shared?
a. The best feature was the tight, dry roof.
Who revealed that Tom had killed two men and was hiding?
a. Ruthie
What did Ma give Tom before he left?
c. $7 and dinner
What was Tom’s new plan?
d. Tom was going to continue Casy’s mission of leading people and fighting for better working conditions.
What decision showed that Al had matured?
b. Al decided to marry Aggie.
Who helped with Rose of Sharon’s labor and birth?
a. Mrs. Wainwright
How did Pa try to manage the floodwaters?
c. He organized a group to build a levee
What happened to Rose of Sharon’s baby?
b. The baby was born dead.
What did Uncle John do with the baby?
d. He floated the box that held the baby down the river.
Whom did Ma, Rose of Sharon, and the others encounter in the barn?
a. a starving man and his son
What did Rose of Sharon do in the final scene of the novel?
c. She nursed a dying man.
“I ain’t keepin’ quiet about it. Sure I been in McAlester. Been there four years. Sure these is the clothes they give me when I come out. I don’t give a damn who knows it. An’ I’m goin’ to my old man’s place so I don’t have to lie to get a job.”
b. Tom
“Maybe, I figgered, maybe it’s all men an’ all women we love; maybe that’s the Holy Sperit--the human sperit. The whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of.”
d. Casy
“The thing that give me the mos’ trouble was, it didn’ make no sense. You don’t look for no sense when lightnin’ kills a cow, or it comes up a flood. That’s jus’ the way things is. But when a bunch of men take an’ lock you up four years, it ought to have some meaning.”
d. Tom
“You go right along. Me--I’m stayin’. I give her a goin-over all night mos’ly. This here’s my country. I b’long here. An’ I don’t give a goddamn if they’s oranges an’ grapes crowdin’ a fella outa bed even. I ain’t a-goin’. This country ain’t no good, but it’s my country.”
b. Grandpa
“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes, it’ll on’y be one. If I go ahead on all of ‘em, it’s too much. You got to live ahead ‘cause you’re so young, but--it’s jus’ the road goin’ by for me. An’ it’s jus’ how soon they gonna wanta eat some more pork bones. That’s all I can do. I can’t do no more. All the rest’d get upset if I done any more’n that. They all depen’ on me jus’ thinkin’ about that.”
a. Ma
“...we wanna live in a town...I’m gonna have a doctor when the baby’s born...An’ we’ll have a car, little car...I’m gonna have a ‘lectric iron...We don’t want nothin’ fancy but we want it nice for the baby.”
c. Rose of Sharon
“You done this ‘thout thinkin’ much. What we got lef’ in the worl’? Nothin’ but us. Nothin’ but the folks. We come out an’ Grandpa he reached for the shovel-shelf right off. An’ now, right off, you wanna bust up the folks--All we got is the family unbroke.”
d. Ma
“I tried to tell you folks. Somepin it took me a year to find out. Took two kids dead, took my wife dead to show me. But I can’t tell you. I should of knew that. Nobody could tell me, neither. I can’t tell ya about them little fellas layin’ in the tent with their bellies puffed out an’ jus’ skin on their bones, an’ shiverin’ an’ whinin’ like pups, an’ me runnin’ aroun’ tryin’ to get work--”
c. the ragged man at the roadside camp
“Tom, I ain’t a-gonna leave this here water. I’m a-gonna walk on down this here river. Get myself a piece of line. I’ll catch fish. Fella can’t starve beside a nice river.”
d. Noah
“They’s a time of change, an’ when that comes, dyin’ is a piece of all dyin’, and bearin’ is a piece of all bearin’, and bearin’ an’ dyin’ is two pieces of the same thing. An’ then things ain’t lonely any more. An’ then a hurt don’t hurt so bad, ‘cause it ain’t a lonely hurt no more…”
a. Ma
“I was afraid we wouldn’ get acrost. I tol’ Granma we couldn’ he’p her. The fambly had to get acrost. I tol’ her, tol’ her when she was a-dyin’. We couldn’ stop in the desert. There was the young ones--an’ Rosasharn’s baby. I tol’ her.”
c. Ma
“I’ll go, mister. You’re a contractor, an’ you got a license. You jus’ show your license, an’ then you give us the order to go to work, an’ where, an’ when, an’ how much we’ll get, an’ you sign that, an’ we’ll all go.”
a. Floyd Knowles
“Somebody got to take the blame. I got no kids. They’ll jus’ put me in jail, an’ I ain’t doin’ nothin’ but set aroun’.”
c. Casy
“But them deputies--Did you ever see a deputy that didn’ have a fat ass? An’ they waggle their ass an’ flop their gun aroun’. Ma, if it was the law they was workin’ with, why, we could take it. But it ain’t the law. They’re a-workin’ away at our spirits. They’re a-tryin’ to make us cringe an’ crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin’ to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on’y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin’ a sock at a cop. They’re workin’ on our decency.”
a. Tom
“Easy. You got to have patience....Why, Tom, we’re the people that live. They ain’t gonna wipe us out. Why, we’re the people--we go on.”
d. Ma
“You fellas don’ know what you’re doin’. You’re helpin’ to starve kids.”
b. Casy
“I’ll be all aroun’ in the dark. I’ll be ever’where--wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’--I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build--why, I’ll be there.”
b. Tom
During what time period in American history is this novel set?
c. The Great Depression
What natural disaster contributed to the drought which caused the plains-people to lose their farms?
a. The Dust Bowl
Many plains-people who lost their farms were which type of farmer?
d. sharecropper
In what state did the Joads live prior to their journey?
b. Oklahoma
At the beginning of the novel, Tom Joad was returning home. Where had he been?
a. He had been in prison.
Steinbeck wrote that women knew their men were not “broken” if they showed what emotion?
c. anger / wrath
What theme does the turtle chapter demonstrate?
d. perseverance
What did Jim Casy give up because he couldn’t reconcile his Hypocrisies?
b. He gave up being a preacher.
What metaphor did Steinbeck use to represent the banks which repossessed the farmers’ land?
c. the monster
What metaphor did Steinbeck use to represent the $3 a-day tractor Driver?
a. the robot
Other than the destruction of property, why were the tenant-farmers upset with the tractor drivers?
a. The tractor drivers were members of their community,and they were hurting their friends and neighbors because they were paid well.
What did Jim Casy believe was holy?
d. all men and women
Jim Casy said, “Maybe all men got one big ________ ever’body’s a part of.” Finish the quotation.
b. soul
Who shared his rabbit with Tom and Casy?
c. Muley Graves
How did Muley feel as a result of his choice to stay on the land even though it didn’t belong to him anymore?
a. He felt hunted like a coyote.
What words describe the used-car salesman that would sell the plains-people jalopies?
d. deceitful / manipulative
What event caused Uncle John’s guilt?
d. He never forgave himself for his pregnant wife’s death.
Which Joad was the car expert?
b. Al
How much money did the Joads have when they left for California?
c. $150
Why did the Joads have confidence that opportunities existed California?
a. They received handbills that advertised the need for hundreds of workers.
What did the Joad family do prior to telling Casy he could join them on their journey?
They had to hav e a family meeting and discussion
What did the Joads do the night before they left for California?
They slaughtered pigs and salted down the meat
Which Joad changed his / her mind about wanting to go to California?
b. Grandpa
Why didn’t that person want to go?
c. He / she did not want to leave the land on which he / she had lived and where his / her ancestors had died.
Ma dreamed of having what soon after they arrive in California?
c. a white house
In prison, Tom learned how to endure a long period of time. He said, “Just live _________________.” Finish the quotation.
a. “Just live for the day.”
What road was the “path of the people in flight” to California
d. Route 66
How were migrants often treated by service-station workers during their journeys?
B. They were treated rudely because the workers often thought they didn’t have money to pay for gas or might want to trade items for gas.
What happened to the Joads’ dog?
a. It was hit by a car on the highway.
Who loaned their tent and quilt to the Joads at the roadside camp because Grandpa was sick?
c. the Wilsons
Of what did Grandpa die?
What help did the Wilsons need that the Joads could provide?
c. They needed car repairs.
.33. What legal problem did the Joads face at the roadside camp with Grandpa?
b. They didn’t know what to do with Grandpa’s body because it was illegal to bury it on public ground.
Steinbeck wrote that the thing to “bomb is the beginning--from _____________.” Finish the quotation.
a. “I to we”
What did Steinbeck write “freezes” a person into selfishness
a. The quality of owning freezes a person into selfishness
How did Ma react when Tom suggested that the group split up so that the Joads could find work while the Wilsons’ car got fixed
c. She threatened Pa with a jack-handle.
How was the junkyard employee a contrast to Tom?
b. The junkyard employee was lazy and unwilling to change where Tom was a man of action.
What did the ragged man at the roadside camp report?
d. He reported that conditions in California were terrible and that people were underbidding each other for jobs.
Which was not a characteristic of the migrants’ roadside camps?
a. They provided help with food.
What decision did Noah make?
c. He decided to stay by the river and discontinue the journey with his family.
What slang term was used to reference the migrants in a derogatory Way?
a. Okie
Ma’s anger caused her to react aggressively at certain points in the novel. Which was not one of them?
b. Ma told the border guard in Arizona that she would shoot him with her rifle if he didn’t let her through
Why didn’t the Wilsons continue their journey with the Joads?
d. Sairy was too sick to travel.
Why was Ma in a hurry to get past the border guard?
b. She was hiding the fact that Grandma was dead and didn’t want him looking more closely at her.
The squatters’ camps that were unsanitary, constructed of cardboard or other items from garbage dumps, and often burned by the police were called what?
a. Hoovervilles
How did the landowners in California prevent the migrants from Organizing?
c. They arrested and blacklisted the leaders.
What happened when Ma cooked stew in the Hooverville?
c. Hungry children gathered around her pot.
What did Floyd Knowles do that caused the cop to falsely accuse him of a crime?
b.Floyd questioned the labor contractor about the job’s pay.
What decision did Connie make?
a. He decided to abandon Rose of Sharon and the Joads.
