This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > The Grapes Of Wrath > The Grapes Of Wrath – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the sheriff's announcement to the Joads as he visits from tent to tent? A) Okies aren't wanted. B) Help is on the way. C) Go to the government camp. D) Welcome to California. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Okies aren't wanted. 2. What theme is suggested by this passage from the story: "To California or any place-every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness." A) Being bitter will never make your live easier. B) Everybody carries personal pain in their life. C) We can escape our bitterness by moving locations. D) People need to rise above their petty problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everybody carries personal pain in their life. 3. When the father wants to buy the candy for the boys, what does it show about his character? A) He is annoyed with the boys wanting junk food. B) He loves his sons and does what he can to treat them well. C) He wants to spoil his children with treats. D) He wants to annoy Mae even more. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He loves his sons and does what he can to treat them well. 4. When the narrator says, "You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives, " what does he mean? A) The people who buy the junk have bad taste. B) Junk only has value when people appreciate it. C) The people who owned the junk have lives that now seem worthless. D) People should not sell their junk to someone else. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The people who owned the junk have lives that now seem worthless. 5. Even though Casy again claims that he is no longer a preacher, why does Sairy Wilson really want him to pray for her? A) She wants him to understand that he is still a preacher. B) She knows she's going to die. C) She believes his prayers can bring her good luck. D) She believes his prayers have power and can bring her comfort or healing. E) She's actually bored from being sick all the time, and wants Casy's companionship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She knows she's going to die. 6. What part of speech is wearily in the following sentence?Papa sighed, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and said wearily, "Es todo." A) Pronoun. B) Verb. C) Noun. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adverb. 7. Ramon was filled with ..... after loosing the elections. A) Toil. B) Doomed. C) Bitterness. D) Ruthless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bitterness. 8. How do the characters feel about their horses? A) They work hard. B) They love the horses. C) They are expensive. D) They would rather have cows. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They love the horses. 9. What technique does John Steinbeck, the author, use to show that the family is poor? A) Imagery:highly descriptive language to describe the characters. B) Dramatic Irony:by describing how little the family has because the reader knows how much they will get in California. C) Alliteration:repeating a sound in words to show Mae feeling annoyed. D) Humor:to show how funny the boys look in overalls. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery:highly descriptive language to describe the characters. 10. How'll it be not to know what land's outside the door? How if you wake up in the night and know-and know the willow tree's 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) The characters' new life in another place. B) The characters' lost childhood dreams. C) The characters' personal histories. D) The characters' love of the outdoors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The characters' personal histories. 11. What did it show of the man's personality that he wanted to buy his boys some candy (a luxury)? A) That he was a caring father. B) That he wanted Mae's help. C) That he wanted to take advantage of Mae's kindness. D) That he was a cheap person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That he was a caring father. 12. Who does the "monster" represent? A) The tenants. B) Tom Joad. C) The bank. D) The tractor driver. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The bank. 13. Which word means a long-established custom or practice; the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation. A) Culture. B) Generation. C) Tradition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tradition. 14. Not changing; not giving in A) Inflexible (adjective). B) Faltering (adjective). C) Fiercely (adverb). D) Insistent (adjective). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inflexible (adjective). 15. What does Ma Joad reveal about Grandma's condition as they travel past the checkpoint? A) She has been dead for the latter part of the trip. B) She has a temporary fever. C) Her condition is deteriorating slowly. D) She is recovering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She has been dead for the latter part of the trip. 16. Where are the characters moving to? A) St. Louis Fair. B) California. C) Home. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) California. 17. Where is the family moving to? A) California. B) Texas. C) New York. D) Montana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) California. 18. Great sadness; suffering A) Sorrow. B) Bitterness. C) Toil. D) Frantically. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sorrow. 19. What did people do with items they couldn't sell or take with them? A) Give them away. B) Burn them. C) Leave them behind. D) Share them with the homeless. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burn them. 20. What does "you're buying junked lives" mean? A) The owners of the belongings have lives that appear worthless. B) People who sell junk don't want any money. C) People who buy junk have nothing else to do. D) People who buy junk like to hoard items. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The owners of the belongings have lives that appear worthless. 21. 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. 22. "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. 23. What does the suffix-less mean? A) Able to have. B) Happy. C) Having too much. D) Not having. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not having. 24. 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. 25. Who gets arrested at the Hooverville, for hitting a policeman? A) Uncle John. B) Pa. C) Cases. D) Tom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cases. 26. The act of communicating with a deity. A) Derrick. B) Supplication. C) Tributary. D) Eminent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supplication. 27. 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. 28. 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. 29. Why are they moving? A) They can't survive because they can't grow crops. B) To be close to family. C) They hope life will be better somewhere else. D) A storm is coming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They can't survive because they can't grow crops. 30. If someone behaves frantically, how are they acting? A) Calm. B) Panicked. C) Excited. D) Tired. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Panicked. 31. I ..... through my old clothes to see what to save and what to give away. A) Coincidence. B) Precarious. C) Adjacent. D) Sifted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sifted. 32. Each one; Individually A) Inflexible (adjective). B) Resignedly (adverb). C) Apiece (adverb). D) Expelled (verb). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apiece (adverb). 33. 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. 34. Year of publication of the novel A) 1835. B) 1843. C) 1842. D) 1839. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1839. 35. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, to what sense does the phrase "red dust" appeal? A) Touch. B) Sight. C) Smell. D) Taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sight. 36. What part of speech is bitterness in the following sentence?And more-you'll see-you're buying bitterness. A) They tend. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Noun. 37. 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. 38. What is the genre of the novel? A) Narrative. B) Dramatic. C) Descriptive. D) Lyrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 39. Moving and bending with ease. A) Lithe. B) Languid. C) Lucent. D) Dissipate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithe. 40. Where was the family driving to? A) Oklahoma. B) New York. C) California. D) Florida. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) California. 41. The night of the camp dance, an inspiring story circulates about a group of workers who unionized in which city? A) St. Louis. B) Akron. C) Oklahoma City. D) Pittsburgh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Akron. 42. When Mae lies and says the really 5 cent apiece candy is two for one penny, it shows what about her character? A) It shows that she changes and is sympathetic to the boys. B) It shows that she wants to get rid of the candy. C) It shows that she just wants the man and boys to leave the store. D) It shows that she can break under pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It shows that she changes and is sympathetic to the boys. 43. The Farmers Association doesn't like the Weedpatch camp because they think it's full of ..... A) Black people. B) Disease. C) Hobos. D) Communists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Communists. 44. In chapter 12 (about route 66) the following literary tool was used to emphasize the long journey ahead: A) Personification of the tractor. B) Animal imagery of bugs being crushed. C) Listing of setting-towns they will travel through. D) Conflict between Ma and Pa shown through dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Listing of setting-towns they will travel through. 45. What does Al think they will need to replace before they get to California? A) Gear box. B) Fan belt. C) Tires. D) Motor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tires. 46. Destined to a bad outcome A) Doomed. B) Ruthless. C) Sorrow. D) Toil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Doomed. 47. After her favorite team lost the championship, Emily experienced a deep feeling of 'sorrow'. What does 'sorrow' mean in this context? A) Elation. B) Contentment. C) Distress. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Distress. 48. What does the father attempt to do with the junk dealer? A) Haggle the prices up. B) Haggle the prices down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haggle the prices up. 49. If a woman digs through her purse "frantically, " which of the following is most likely true? A) She behaves in a way meant to amuse her companions. B) She suggests that the purse does not really belong to her. C) She panics when she does not find what she seeks. D) She searches for her belongings in a slow, careful way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She panics when she does not find what she seeks. 50. The suffix-less means "without." With this knowledge, select the correct definition of "speechless." A) Having difficulty talking. B) Able to talk a lot. C) Learning how to talk. D) Unable to talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unable to talk. 51. What is the meaning of bitterness? A) Destined to a bad outcome. B) Having no compassion or pity. C) Condition causing pain or sorrow. D) In a tired manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Condition causing pain or sorrow. 52. What is the meaning of 'sorrow'? A) Contentment. B) Distress. C) Elation. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distress. 53. At the river camp Pa Joad meets a man and his son. What news do they bring from CA? A) Work is great in CA. B) They were unable to get work. C) Land owners are only hiring Mexicans. D) Work can be found only in northern CA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They were unable to get work. 54. Who says, "I'm just trying to get along without shoving nobody" ? A) Pa. B) Ma. C) Cases. D) Tom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tom. 55. According to the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, where is the narrator planning to travel? A) His hometown. B) California. C) The St. Louis Fair. D) The east coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) California. 56. Which word means having no compassion or pity? A) Diversity. B) Sinister (adj.). C) Ruthless (adj.). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ruthless (adj.). 57. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, how does the main character speaking mainly feel toward those he interacts with in town? A) Satisfied. B) Grateful. C) Indifferent. D) Bitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bitter. 58. What does it mean when the narrator compares the characters' lives to junk? A) It takes a special person to buy junk. B) People don't understand the value of junk. C) The characters' lives are worthless. D) People who buy junk have worthless lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The characters' lives are worthless. 59. The refugees referred to in Chapter 12 are most likely referring to whom? A) People who left their country of origin and came to the U.S. B) People from the Midwest, most notably Oklahoma moving West. C) People leaving their homes because they were kicked out. D) People who had no family. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People from the Midwest, most notably Oklahoma moving West. 60. What sense does "red dust" appeal to? A) Smell. B) Touch. C) Taste. D) Sight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sight. Next →Related QuizzesAmerican Classics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe 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 7 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books