The Grapes of Wrath Multiple Choice
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 in...
(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?
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