The Grapes of Wrath- Selection Test
Questions And Answers 100% Pass
What are the characters selling? - answer✔belongings they cannot carry on their journey;
horses they hope to get cash for
How does the narrator mainly feel toward those he interacts with in town? - answer✔bitter
Where is the narrator planning to travel - answer✔California
Why do the characters decide to move away? - answer✔They can no longer survive on
their dry farmlands.
What do the characters do with the belongings that they cannot sell or take with them? -
answer✔burn them
When the narrator says, "You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives," what
does he mean? - answer✔The people who owned the junk have lives that now seem
worthless
What does the narrator think will happen to the characters who buy his belongings? -
answer✔They will suffer a similar fate.
How does the narrator feel about his upcoming journey? - answer✔discouraged
What does the following passage show about the setting of the story: Can't sell a hand plow
any more. Fifty cents for the weight of the metal. Disks and tractors, that's the stuff now. -
answer✔It is set during a time when farming equipment is not worth much.
What does the following passage reveal about the cultural context of the story- Maybe we
can start again, in the new rich land...We'll start over. - answer✔People hoped they could
find a better life.
What theme is suggested by the following passage: To California or any place- every one a
drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. - answer✔Everybody
carries personal pain throughout life.
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