This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > American Classics > The Grapes Of Wrath > The Grapes Of Wrath – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 12 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Giving up A) Wearily (adverb). B) Resignedly (adverb). C) Faltering (adjective). D) Trousers (noun). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resignedly (adverb). 2. What becomes the new hearth of the family? A) The outhouse. B) The barn. C) The truck. D) The fields. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The truck. 3. To ask for or request earnestly. A) Implement. B) Rout. C) Beseech. D) Inveterate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beseech. 4. The formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence. A) Rout. B) Truculent. C) Prodigal. D) Conjecture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conjecture. 5. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, what does the narrator think will happen to the characters who buy his belongings? A) They will suffer a similar fate. B) They will regret their cheapness. C) They will never use what they buy. D) They will have better luck in life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They will suffer a similar fate. 6. Sly; clever; showing inventiveness and skill. A) Bemused. B) Lithe. C) Fatuous. D) Cunning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cunning. 7. What is the meaning of the suffix-less in the capitalized word? The worker turned an EXPRESSIONLESS face to us; he showed no reaction at all. A) Able to be. B) Starting up. C) Not having. D) Seeming to. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not having. 8. What is the meaning of "Craving" ? A) Demanding. B) Stiff; not bending. C) Something done in a tired or exhausted way. D) Wanting something a lot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wanting something a lot. 9. "You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives, " what does it mean? A) Those who buy others' junk have little meaning in their lives. B) The people who owned the junk have lives that now seem worthless. C) Only people with bad taste would accumulate and sell such rubbish. D) The value of junk is only clear to those who learn to appreciate it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The people who owned the junk have lives that now seem worthless. 10. What does the word scuffed mean? A) Running quickly. B) Walking slowly and scraping your shoe or another object on a surface. C) Rushing to get somewhere. D) Showing excitement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walking slowly and scraping your shoe or another object on a surface. 11. Read this passage: "How'll it be not to know what land's outside your door? How if you wake up in the night and know-and know the willow trees not there? Can you live without the willow tree? Well, no, you can't. The willow tree is you." What does the willow tree represent? A) Lost childhood dreams. B) His personal history. C) New opportunities in another place. D) The lost love of someone in his life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His personal history. 12. What do the family members do to the items they could not sell? A) They decide to keep them at their house. B) They burn them. C) They give them away for free. D) They take everything with them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They burn them. 13. Defiantly aggressive; fierce and cruel A) Supplication. B) Emulsion. C) Conjecture. D) Truculent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Truculent. 14. Ruthless means to act wildly with anger, worry, or pain? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. Identify the choice that best answers the question. What do the characters in the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath do with the belongings that they cannot sell or take with them? A) Drop them by the road. B) Leave them for others. C) Give them away. D) Burn them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Burn them. 16. (1)The workers toil away in the sun, not stopping for a single sip of water. What is the meaning of the word toil in sentence 1? A) Tp relax all day!. B) To work extrmely hard!. C) To enjoy your day!. D) To play all day!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To work extrmely hard!. 17. Acting wildly with anger, worry, or pain A) Doomed. B) Frantically. C) Toil. D) Sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frantically. 18. When he goes into town, how does the narrator feel towards those he talks to? A) Grateful. B) Indifferent. C) Concerned. D) Bitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bitter. 19. Despite toiling for long hours in their fields, the drought made it impossible for the farms to grow crops. A) With great suffering. B) Working hard and with difficulty. C) Destined to a bad outcome. D) Acting wildly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Working hard and with difficulty. 20. When the farmers were forced to sell their belonging for pennies and move across the country, they felt great bitterness. A) An unpleasant feeling, pain or sorrow. B) Having no emotion. C) To act wildly and without a plan. D) Panic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An unpleasant feeling, pain or sorrow. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAmerican Classics QuizzesThe Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 1The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 2The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 3The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 4The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 5The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 6The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 7The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 8The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books