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1:  The structure and prose style used by Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath was most profoundly influenced by what work?

a. Whitman's Leaves of Grass

b. Malory's Morte d'Arthur

c. Twain's Huckleberry Finn

d. King James Bible
2:  What does the description of the land turtle's crossing the highway in Chapter Three symbolize?

a. The futility of hard work

b. Survival and the indestructibility of the life-force

c. The loneliness of traveling alone

d. Independence and the need to take risks
3:  Which Joad child makes the deliberate choice to part ways from the rest of the family?

a. Rose of Sharon

b. Noah

c. Al

d. Tom
4:  What social concept is best typified by Tom's statement, "I climb fences when I got fences to climb"?

a. Romanticism

b. Transcendentalism

c. Pragmatism

d. Socialism
5:  How does Granpa Joad die?

a. He suffers a heart attack.

b. He dies of heat exhaustion.

c. He dies in a fight during a workers’ strike.

d. He has a stroke.
6:  Which character is often considered to be symbolic of Christ?

a. Tom Joad

b. Jim Casy

c. Ma Joad

d. Rose of Sharon Joad
7:  The theory that human identity and self-esteem is determined by a connection to land and its cycle of growth is known as

a. Jeffersonian agrarianism

b. The Industrial Revolution

c. The concept of the Oversoul

d. Neo-teological thinking
8:  Siary Wilson's offering of shelter to the Joads and Ma's feeding of the hungry children in the Hooverville reflect a strand of philosophy that is closely tied to Walt Whitman's concept of love for all individuals. Which of the following is the name of that philosophy?

a. Secularism

b. Humanism

c. Pragmatism

d. Fatalism
9:  What derogatory term do the citizens of California use to label the migrants?

a. Squatters

b. Okies

c. Hoovies

d. Stir-Bugs
10:  Who said the following: ". . . if a fella's got somepin to eat an' another fella's hungry -- why, the first fella ain't got no choice."

a. Ezra Huston

b. Muley Graves

c. Mr. Wainwright

d. Pa Joad
11:  Who said the following: "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."

a. Tom Joad

b. Al Joad

c. Jim Casy

d. Muley Graves
12:  Who said the following: "If you're in trouble or hurt or need -- go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones."

a. Rose of Sharon Joad

b. Sairy Wilson

c. Jim Casy

d. Ma Joad
13:  Who said the following: "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing."

a. Jim Casy

b. Muley Graves

c. Noah Joad

d. Tom Joad


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