This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > 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 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A recklessly extravagant person. A) Bemused. B) Eminent. C) Implement. D) Prodigal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prodigal. 2. Why do people leave the Midwest? A) They don't like farming anymore. B) They want to live in a city. C) They have no money and need new jobs. D) They have been offered a new job. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They have no money and need new jobs. 3. What is the name of Author? A) John Stiwarth. B) John Oklahoma. C) John Steinbeck. D) John Depp. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Steinbeck. 4. As the Joads prepare to leave Weedpatch, they're offered a job 35 miles away picking what kind of fruit? A) Peaches. B) Strawberries. C) Plums. D) Pears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peaches. 5. Doctors and nurses move ..... from one bed to another A) Toil. B) Sorrow. C) Doomed. D) Frantically. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frantically. 6. Where is the narrator planning on traveling to? A) Oklahoma. B) California. C) New York. D) His hometown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) California. 7. What happened to the dog? A) The Joads had to sell it for gas money. B) It ran away to catch a rat and didn't return in time for the Joads to take off. C) It was hit by a car. D) It got bit by a rattlesnake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was hit by a car. 8. The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.Part A In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, the main character speaking thinks that the people buying his belongings will (a) A) They will never use what they buy. B) They will have better luck in life. C) They will regret their cheapness. D) A suffer a dark fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A suffer a dark fate. 9. In Chapter 13, who offers to fix the car of the people on the road? A) Al. B) Pa. C) Connie. D) Tom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Al. 10. Quality of having a sharp, unpleasant taste; conditioncausing pain or sorrow. A) Bitterness. B) Ruthless. C) Doomed. D) Sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bitterness. 11. Which of the sentences best describes frantically? A) The boy is jogging with his dad when they saw a snake on the road. The boy jumped to her dad out of shock. B) The sales lady was assisting my mom on the shoes department. C) The delivery was not successful, and I called them to report. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The boy is jogging with his dad when they saw a snake on the road. The boy jumped to her dad out of shock. 12. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, how does the narrator feel about his upcoming journey? A) Calm. B) Thrilled. C) Discouraged. D) Unconcerned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Discouraged. 13. Nora, Kai, and Abigail are discussing the ruler of a country who is known to be a ruthless dictator. They are trying to figure out if this person could be kind and wise. What do you think? A) Sometimes. B) I don't know. C) Yes. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No. 14. PART A. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, how does the main character speaking feel about his upcoming journey? A) Discouraged. B) Calm. C) Thrilled. D) Unconcerned. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discouraged. 15. Starting to lose strength; hesitating A) Timidly (adverb). B) Faltering (adjective). C) Sullenly (adverb). D) Apiece (adverb). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faltering (adjective). 16. Hostile California natives derogatorily refer to migrant farmers as ..... A) Roaches. B) Freeloaders. C) Okay. D) Dusty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Okay. 17. How is "business" portrayed in Chapter 12 ..... A) Negatively:(The author compares lying to doing "good business". B) Positively! Business is a good thing to be good at . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negatively:(The author compares lying to doing "good business". 18. What do the characters in the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath do with thebelongings that they cannot sell or take with them? A) Give them away. B) Leave them for others. C) Burn them. D) Build sculptures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burn them. 19. Quality of having a sharp, unpleasant taste; condition causing pain or sorrow A) Toil. B) Sorrow. C) Ruthless. D) Bitterness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bitterness. 20. Which of the sentences best describes bitterness? A) A lady who is asking for directions. B) A person who is staring at the sunset. C) The group of friends who walked out of the party. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The group of friends who walked out of the party. 21. The term "Okie" used to identify the new migrants classifies them as ..... A) Country people. B) Patriotic. C) Good workers. D) Scorned and unwanted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scorned and unwanted. 22. Having no compassion or pity. A) Frantically. B) Ruthless. C) Toil. D) Sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ruthless. 23. Cause to separate and go in different directions. A) Dissipate. B) Bemused. C) Fallow. D) Truculent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dissipate. 24. After Tom kills a police officer, where does he hide to avoid being seen? A) In a culvert. B) In a barn. C) In an orchard. D) Under the Joads' car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a culvert. 25. In a way that shows fear or shyness A) Rigid (adjective). B) Inflexible (adjective). C) Timidly (adverb). D) Insistent (adjective). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Timidly (adverb). 26. What is a sign the narrator is discouraged? A) He is excited to sell his belongings. B) He already bought a new house in California. C) He says "This land is us. We can't start again.". D) He says he has to take everything with him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He says "This land is us. We can't start again.". 27. What does Mae's action in selling the candy for much less than what it really cost show about her personality? A) That she was cold-hearted to suffering. B) That she wanted to get rid of the man quickly. C) That she helped everyone that she could. D) That she understood suffering and cared. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That she understood suffering and cared. 28. Which of these people would most likely be described as ruthless? Baseyour answer on the meaning of ruthless. A) An employer who always encourages her workers. B) A politician who raises money for a campaign. C) A dictator who treats his subjects cruelly. D) A teacher who knows little about instruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A dictator who treats his subjects cruelly. 29. What does the Old English suffix-less usually indicate about a word in which it appears? A) The word is a noun. B) The word is an adjective. C) The word is an adverb. D) The word is a verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The word is an adjective. 30. What is the meaning of "resignedly" ? A) Giving up. B) Demanding. C) Stiff; not bending. D) Pants (British). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Giving up. 31. A mixture of liquids that do not normally stay mixed. A) Tributary. B) Emulsion. C) Lucent. D) Beseech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emulsion. 32. The quote: "twenty families became one family" best represents the theme of ..... A) Dignity, Honor, and Wrath. B) Faith and Guilt. C) Powerlessness, Perseverance, and Resistance. D) Family, Friendship, and Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Family, Friendship, and Community. 33. Identify the choice that best answers the question. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, to what sense does the phrase "red dust" appeal? A) Sight. B) Taste. C) Touch. D) Smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sight. 34. What does Casy say to Uncle John about sin, guilt, and luck in this chapter? (pages 224-25) A) Luck is just somepin people aren't sure about. B) Guilt is when you aren't sure if you've sinned or not-and sin is sompin you give to yerself. C) "I don't believe in sin anymore, and I don't believe in luck. You jus got ta make it on yer own". D) Sin is something you're not sure about-I don't think there's luck or bad luck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sin is something you're not sure about-I don't think there's luck or bad luck. 35. Work hard and with difficulty A) Sorrow. B) Bitterness. C) Doomed. D) Toil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Toil. 36. How do the men appear to be at the beginning? A) Surprised. B) Energetic. C) Wicked. D) Ruthless. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ruthless. 37. In the chapter, the tenant wants to shoot someone? Who does he want to shoot? A) The bank. B) The owners. C) The tractor driver. D) Whoever is responsible for his children starving and his family having to leave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whoever is responsible for his children starving and his family having to leave. 38. The firm seemed ..... to fail, but eventually prospered. A) Sorrow. B) Toil. C) Doomed. D) Ruthless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Doomed. 39. The owl began to ..... its head when it sensed I was near. A) Swivel. B) Inflate. C) Propel. D) Hover. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Swivel. 40. 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. 41. What is the meaning of instinctively? A) Completely, entirely. B) In a cautious manner. C) Done automatically, without thinking. D) With eager interest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Done automatically, without thinking. 42. Which of the following is not one of Tom's siblings? A) Noah. B) Connie. C) Rose of Sharon. D) Al. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connie. 43. Where had Tom been in prison? A) Fulsom. B) Salisaw. C) McAlester. D) Bakersfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) McAlester. 44. Why do the Joads leave the river camp? A) The authorities will burn the camp down. B) The other campers chase them out. C) They find work. D) They find a new camp. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The authorities will burn the camp down. 45. What is the meaning of "Expelled" ? A) Giving Up. B) Demanding. C) To let out slowly. D) Sadly; in a depressing and gloomy way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To let out slowly. 46. The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and thenPart B.Part A In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, what does themain character speaking think will happen to the people who buy hisbelongings? A) They will regret their cheapness. B) They will have better luck in life. C) They will never use what they buy. D) They will suffer a dark fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They will suffer a dark fate. 47. What is being sold in the story? A) Belongings and horses. B) House. C) Car. D) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Belongings and horses. 48. Who do the Joads travel with after camping by the road? A) Nobody. B) The Wilsons. C) The Wilkies. D) Hitchhikers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Wilsons. 49. The items the women in "The Grapes of Wrath" were examining were A) Unsightly. B) He fell into disrepair. C) Fragile. D) Doomed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doomed. 50. What information is the same in the Grapes of Wrath and the Dust Bowl video? A) People continued farming. B) People decided to sell their items and move. C) People became rich by farming. D) People ruined the farmland and helped cause the Dust Bowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People ruined the farmland and helped cause the Dust Bowl. 51. Why was Mae upset with what the man wanted? A) She did not want to sell the man any sodas. B) She did not want to sell the bread for less than fifteen cents. C) She did not want the sweaty man in her store. D) She did not want to sell any of her candy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She did not want to sell the bread for less than fifteen cents. 52. What comments do the service station attendants make to reflect the negative connotation of the word Okie? A) They do the best they can with what little they have. B) Got no sense and no feeling. No better than gorillas. C) They're so dumb, they'll get a deadly sunburn crossing the desert. D) Some humans live better than they do and some don't. It's a shame what's happening to our country. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Got no sense and no feeling. No better than gorillas. 53. What does 'toil' mean? A) Relax. B) Work really hard. C) Enjoy. D) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Work really hard. 54. Identify the choice that best answers the question. 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 never use what they buy. B) They will suffer a similar fate. C) They will have better luck in life. D) They will regret their cheapness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They will suffer a similar fate. 55. Something done with strong emotions; aggressively A) Insistent (adjective). B) Wearily (adverb). C) Fiercely (adverb). D) Annoyance (noun). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fiercely (adverb). 56. In the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, what are the characters selling? Choose two options. A) Extra food they have in their pantry. B) Belongings they cannot carry on their journey. C) Horses they hope to get cash for. D) The house they no longer plan to live in. E) Assistance for people moving away. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Belongings they cannot carry on their journey. 57. Identify the choice that best answers the question. According to the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath, where is the narrator planning to travel? A) The St. Louis Fair. B) California. C) His hometown. D) The East Coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) California. 58. What do Ma and Tom worry about at the beginning of the chapter? A) The amount of money the fellows will get for the stuff they took to sell. B) That things are all right in California. C) That they get to California safely. D) That the kids will decide not to go. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That things are all right in California. 59. The whole excerpt creates a mood of ..... A) Hope. B) Tension. C) Excitement. D) Bitterness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bitterness. 60. "They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing." What is Ma Joad talking about in this quote? A) Life. B) Faith. C) Death. D) Humanity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humanity. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAmerican Classics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 1The 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