This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > The Grapes Of Wrath > The Grapes Of Wrath – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Grapes Of Wrath Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a theme of this story? A) Everyone has pain in life. B) No one ever has a problem in life. C) Life is perfect. D) Bitterness is only in certain places. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Everyone has pain in life. 2. What part of speech is toil is the following sentence?You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. A) They tend. B) Noun. C) Adjective. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb. 3. What is the last stop on Route 66? A) Barstow. B) Tempe. C) Oklahoma City. D) Tulsa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barstow. 4. In Chapter 5, we take a break from Tom Joad and his story ..... why do you think Steinbeck does this? A) To explain how life was like in Oklahoma. B) To show a different side to what is going on in Oklahoma at that time and to explain how farmers felt. C) To take a break from a boring story. D) To make the story more interesting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To show a different side to what is going on in Oklahoma at that time and to explain how farmers felt. 5. Where do the narrator and his family plan on traveling to? A) Kansas. B) Arizona. C) California. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) California. 6. I left my country with deep ..... A) Frantically. B) Bitterness. C) Sorrow. D) Toil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sorrow. 7. What do the characters in the excerpt do with the belongings that they cannot sell or take with them? A) Burn them. B) Drop them by the road. C) Leave them for others. D) Give them away. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Burn them. 8. What is the name of the Novel? A) The Grapes of Wrath. B) Grapes of the meekness. C) The Grapes of Grath. D) Grapes of the Kindness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Grapes of Wrath. 9. Why does Mae give in and sell a 15 cent loaf of bread for 10 cents? A) Because Mae is sympathetic to the family's problems. B) Because the man begs Mae to sell the bread. C) Because the bread was stale and really only worth 5 cents. D) Because Al, likely her husband, tells her to sell the bread for 10 cents. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because Al, likely her husband, tells her to sell the bread for 10 cents. 10. What connotation does the word 'Okie' have when Californians use it? A) Fighting-wordsthe Californians love fighting. B) Derogatory-like a racist term. C) Endearing. D) A nice euphemism. E) Friendly-they want to make new friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Derogatory-like a racist term. 11. What does it say about the horses when the narrator describes them in the story? A) The family loves them. B) The family is happy to sell them. C) The horses are useful. D) Horses are expensive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The family loves them. 12. If a woman digs through her purse frantically, which of the followingis most likely true? Base your answer on the meaning of frantically. 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 searches for her belongings in a slow, careful way. D) She panics when she does not find what she seeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She panics when she does not find what she seeks. 13. A tenant is ..... A) A group of ten of something. B) A type of ant. C) A person or group who rents and occupies something like land, a house or an office. D) A person or group who buys and occupies something like land, a house or an office. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A person or group who rents and occupies something like land, a house or an office. 14. In the excerpt, why do the characters decide to move away? A) They want to live closer to their extended family. B) They heard rumors that a destructive storm is approaching. C) They can no longer survive on their dry farmlands. D) They want to start a business somewhere new. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They can no longer survive on their dry farmlands. 15. What does the price of farm equipment say about the setting? A) Farm equipment is in high demand. B) Farm equipment isn't worth much. C) Farm equipment is expensive. D) Farm equipment is hard to find. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farm equipment isn't worth much. 16. What are the names of the youngest Joad children? A) Rose and Al. B) Ariel and Wren. C) Ruthie and Winfield. D) Jack and Rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ruthie and Winfield. 17. What does this passage from the excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath most likely reveal about the cultural context of the story?Maybe we can start again, in the new rich land ..... We'll start over. A) People loved embarking on new adventures. B) People preferred the safety of staying put. C) People hoped they could find a better life. D) People made suggestions but never acted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People hoped they could find a better life. 18. Which is true of the setting of the story? A) It is flooding because of too much rain. B) People move around a lot. C) It takes place in California. D) Farm equipment is not yet worth much money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Farm equipment is not yet worth much money. 19. Who are Ivy and Sairy Wilson? A) The Joad's neighbors. B) Strangers on the side of the road. C) Owners of a service station. D) The cook and waitress at a diner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strangers on the side of the road. 20. How long does Tom say it will take them to get to California? A) 24 hours. B) 10 days to 2 weeks. C) 2 days. D) 2 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10 days to 2 weeks. 21. Who picks out the truck and does most of the driving? A) Pa. B) Noah. C) Al. D) Uncle John. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Al. 22. A piece of equipment or a tool used for a specific purpose. A) Supplication. B) Implement. C) Lucent. D) Inveterate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Implement. 23. Lacking spirit or liveliness. A) Tributary. B) Eminent. C) Supplication. D) Languid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Languid. 24. What is the meaning of "wearily" ? A) Something that is irritating or causing trouble. B) Something done in a tired or exhausted way. C) Something done with strong emotions or aggressively. D) Demanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Something done in a tired or exhausted way. 25. How does the narrator feel about other people? A) He is mad. B) He is excited. C) He is sad. D) He is bitter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is bitter. 26. Which of the following situations best illustrates the word "toil" ? A) The spring runoff made the narrow river unusually high, whirling, and murky. B) Unless you have exact change, you will need a special card to drive over the bridge. C) We bought a new shower curtain and mat to liven up the dark, dingy bathroom. D) All day long, landscapers dug holes, planted bushes, and scattered mulch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All day long, landscapers dug holes, planted bushes, and scattered mulch. 27. Doomed means destined to a bad outcome? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 28. The ruler of a country has been said to be a ruthless dictator. This person is expected to be ..... A) Cruel and unkind. B) Mad and dumb. C) Rude and angry. D) Kind and wise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cruel and unkind. 29. Why were the two boys so amazed at the candy? A) They had likely never seen so much candy before. B) They didn't know what it was. C) They were greedy for the candy. D) They were surprised there was only peppermint stick candy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They had likely never seen so much candy before. 30. Which word means great suffering, sadness? A) Sorrow. B) Ruthless. C) Toil. D) Bitterness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sorrow. 31. "People moving" (173). A) Personification. B) Staccato sentence. C) Metonymy. D) Moralistic diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Staccato sentence. 32. Which words in the excerpt in question 21 most clearly reinforce this impression of the horses? A) .They look over the fence sniffing for us. B) Rubbing the soft noses with her cheek. C) Matched they are, matched in color. D) Off horse is eight, near is ten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rubbing the soft noses with her cheek. 33. What does the narrator think will happen to the characters who buy his belongings? A) They will suffer a similar fate. B) They will never use what they buy. C) They will have better luck in life. D) They will regret their cheapness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They will suffer a similar fate. 34. Why does Jim Casy plan to do in California? A) Pick crops and learn. B) Preach. C) Teach. D) Baptism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pick crops and learn. 35. 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. 36. To ask for or request earnestly. A) Implement. B) Beseech. C) Inveterate. D) Rout. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beseech. 37. The formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence. A) Rout. B) Conjecture. C) Truculent. D) Prodigal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conjecture. 38. 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 have better luck in life. C) They will never use what they buy. D) They will regret their cheapness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They will suffer a similar fate. 39. Sly; clever; showing inventiveness and skill. A) Bemused. B) Cunning. C) Lithe. D) Fatuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cunning. 40. 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) Not having. C) Starting up. D) Seeming to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not having. 41. 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. 42. "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. 43. 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. 44. 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) New opportunities in another place. B) The lost love of someone in his life. C) Lost childhood dreams. D) His personal history. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His personal history. 45. What do the family members do to the items they could not sell? A) They decide to keep them at their house. B) They give them away for free. C) They take everything with them. D) They burn them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They burn them. 46. Defiantly aggressive; fierce and cruel A) Truculent. B) Emulsion. C) Conjecture. D) Supplication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Truculent. 47. Ruthless means to act wildly with anger, worry, or pain? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 48. 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) Give them away. B) Burn them. C) Leave them for others. D) Drop them by the road. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Burn them. 49. (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!. 50. Acting wildly with anger, worry, or pain A) Doomed. B) Frantically. C) Toil. D) Sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frantically. 51. When he goes into town, how does the narrator feel towards those he talks to? A) Bitter. B) Concerned. C) Indifferent. D) Grateful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bitter. 52. 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. 53. 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. 54. What did Tom hear about things in California? A) There were swimming pools and movie stars. B) That there was a lot of money to make. C) That the ocean is beautiful. D) That wages were low and that jobs were hard to get. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That wages were low and that jobs were hard to get. 55. What are the symbols in the Novel A) Land turtle, bank moster, dying dog and the Road rote 66. B) Red turtle, and Road rote 66. C) John Steinbeck and land turtle. D) The grapes of wrath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land turtle, bank moster, dying dog and the Road rote 66. 56. Standing above others in quality or position. A) Tributary. B) Eminent. C) Beseech. D) Truculent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eminent. 57. How do the women seem to be? A) Elusive. B) Emotional. C) Exhausted. D) Excited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional. 58. What book of the Old Testament is a parallel for the Joads' journey on Route 66? A) Genesis. B) Leviticus. C) The Promised Land. D) Exodus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exodus. 59. Why were Okies despised by land owners and other Californians? A) For their lack of education. B) For being poor. C) For their resilience and wretchedness. D) For the way they spoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For their resilience and wretchedness. 60. 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