This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > American Classics > The Grapes Of Wrath > The Grapes Of Wrath – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 2 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did the man want to buy? A) A 15 cent loaf of bread. B) 10 cents worth of a loaf of bread. C) 10 cents worth of candy for his children. D) 20 cents worth of sandwiches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10 cents worth of a loaf of bread. 2. "Listen to the motor. Listen to the wheels. Listen with your ears ..... " (161). A) Metaphor. B) Anaphora. C) Multi-connector. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 3. What does the suffix-less mean? A) Having too much. B) Happy. C) Able to have. D) Not having. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not having. 4. What decision does Noah make in chapter 18? A) Noah decides to go back to Oklahoma. B) Noah wants to make his way to California on his own-he's too much trouble for the family. C) He decides to simply stay at the river. D) Noah wants to move to California and make cartoons about a mouse. E) Tom secretly tells Noah to go away because he's a liability to the family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He decides to simply stay at the river. 5. Who gets arrested at the Hooverville, for hitting a policeman? A) Tom. B) Uncle John. C) Pa. D) Cases. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cases. 6. The act of communicating with a deity. A) Derrick. B) Supplication. C) Eminent. D) Tributary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supplication. 7. Identify the choice that best answers the question. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, why do the characters decide to move away? A) They want to live closer to their extended family. B) They can no longer survive on their dry farmlands. C) They know that they can make more money elsewhere. D) They heard rumors that a destructive storm is approaching. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They can no longer survive on their dry farmlands. 8. When the narrator of the selection from The Grapes of Wrath says, "You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives, " what does he mean? A) Those who buy others' junk have little meaning in their lives. B) Only people with bad taste would accumulate and sell such rubbish. C) The value of junk is only clear to those who learn to appreciate it. D) The people who owned the junk have lives that now seem worthless. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The people who owned the junk have lives that now seem worthless. 9. Why are they moving? A) To be close to family. B) They can't survive because they can't grow crops. C) They hope life will be better somewhere else. D) A storm is coming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They can't survive because they can't grow crops. 10. If someone behaves frantically, how are they acting? A) Calm. B) Panicked. C) Excited. D) Tired. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Panicked. 11. I ..... through my old clothes to see what to save and what to give away. A) Sifted. B) Precarious. C) Coincidence. D) Adjacent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sifted. 12. Each one; Individually A) Inflexible (adjective). B) Apiece (adverb). C) Resignedly (adverb). D) Expelled (verb). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apiece (adverb). 13. What is the meaning of "rigid" ? A) Stiff; not bending. B) Being humble; modest. C) Each one; individually. D) Starting to lose strength; hesitating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stiff; not bending. 14. Year of publication of the novel A) 1839. B) 1835. C) 1843. D) 1842. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1839. 15. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, to what sense does the phrase "red dust" appeal? A) Sight. B) Taste. C) Smell. D) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sight. 16. What part of speech is bitterness in the following sentence?And more-you'll see-you're buying bitterness. A) Verb. B) They tend. C) Noun. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noun. 17. What information about "The Dust Bowl" is shown in the video and in the story? A) How people in real-life reacted to it. B) How farmers overused the land. C) There was a drought and people could no longer farm. D) How long the Dust Bowl lasted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There was a drought and people could no longer farm. 18. What is the genre of the novel? A) Narrative. B) Dramatic. C) Lyrical. D) Descriptive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 19. Moving and bending with ease. A) Dissipate. B) Languid. C) Lucent. D) Lithe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lithe. 20. Where was the family driving to? A) Oklahoma. B) New York. C) California. D) Florida. 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