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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Exercises of Literature

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Study Guide Questions
Chapters 1-4
1. What does Steinbeck describe in chapter one?
2. Where is Tom Joad coming from and where is he going to when he hitches a ride with the truck
driver?
3. What is the turtle's most outstanding characteristic?
4. Identify Jim Casey.
5. What ideas did Jim Casey come up with during his thinking time?
6. Why was Tom in jail, and what is his attitude towards his crime?
Chapters 5-7
1. What is the Monster, and why can men not control it?
2. Identify Muley Graves.
Chapters 8-9
1. About what does Uncle John feel guilty?
2. What is the first thing each of the Joads wants to know when Tom comes home?
3. Describe the relationship between Grandpa and Grandma.
4. What happened to Noah at his birth?
5. What does Steinbeck show us in chapter nine?
Chapters 10-12
1. What advice does Tom give Ma about worrying about the future?
2. What does Pa say about Jim Casey's coming along with the family? What does Ma say? Does
Casey go?
3. How does Tom and Ma get Grandpa into the truck even though he does not want to go?
4. Who all heads West on the Joad truck?
5. What does Steinbeck describe in chapter eleven?
Chapters 13-14
1. Which of the passengers on the Joad truck is the first to be left behind?
2. Who are the Wilsons?
Chapters 15-16
1. What plans have Connie and Rose of Sharon made?
2. What is Al's attitude problem?
3. Why does Ma revolt?
4. What discouraging news does the ragged man give Pa?
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Study Guide Questions

Chapters 1-

  1. What does Steinbeck describe in chapter one?
  2. Where is Tom Joad coming from and where is he going to when he hitches a ride with the truck driver?
  3. What is the turtle's most outstanding characteristic?
  4. Identify Jim Casey.
  5. What ideas did Jim Casey come up with during his thinking time?
  6. Why was Tom in jail, and what is his attitude towards his crime?

Chapters 5-

  1. What is the Monster, and why can men not control it?
  2. Identify Muley Graves.

Chapters 8-

  1. About what does Uncle John feel guilty?
  2. What is the first thing each of the Joads wants to know when Tom comes home?
  3. Describe the relationship between Grandpa and Grandma.
  4. What happened to Noah at his birth?
  5. What does Steinbeck show us in chapter nine?

Chapters 10-

  1. What advice does Tom give Ma about worrying about the future?
  2. What does Pa say about Jim Casey's coming along with the family? What does Ma say? Does Casey go?
  3. How does Tom and Ma get Grandpa into the truck even though he does not want to go?
  4. Who all heads West on the Joad truck?
  5. What does Steinbeck describe in chapter eleven?

Chapters 13-

  1. Which of the passengers on the Joad truck is the first to be left behind?
  2. Who are the Wilsons?

Chapters 15-

  1. What plans have Connie and Rose of Sharon made?
  2. What is Al's attitude problem?
  3. Why does Ma revolt?
  4. What discouraging news does the ragged man give Pa?

Chapters 17-

  1. What do Pa and Tom learn from the men in the river?
  2. To what decision does Noah come?
  3. Why do the Wilsons not cross the desert with the Joads?
  4. Why is Ma so feisty at the agricultural inspection station?

Chapters 19-

  1. How does Casey help Tom out of trouble with the deputy sheriff?
  2. Where and why does Connie go?

Chapters 21-

  1. Why does Mr. Thomas lower the wages from thirty cents per hour to twenty-five cents per hour?
  2. What tip does Mr. Thomas give Timothy?
  3. Compare and contrast "Hoovervilles" and the government camp.

Chapters 23-

  1. What does Steinbeck reveal in chapter twenty-three?
  2. How do the camp "guards" ruin the Association's plot to invade the government camp?
  3. What moral crime is committed in chapter twenty-five?

Chapter 26

  1. Why do the Joads leave the government camp?
  2. How is the flat tire good luck for the Joads?
  3. Where does Tom go after dinner on the first day of peach-picking? Why?
  4. Who does Tom meet again on his evening walk? What is he doing there outside the peach orchard?
  5. How does Tom get into trouble with the law again?
  6. What happens to Winfield?
  7. Why do the Joads leave the peach orchard, and where do they go?

Chapters 27-

  1. Why does Ma risk going to Tom's hiding place?
  2. What does Tom decide to do?
  3. Who is Aggie Wainwright?

Chapters 29-

  1. Why can the Joads not move when the rains came?
  2. What is Pa's solution to the problem of flooding? Is his plan successful?
  3. What happens to Rose of Sharon's baby?
  4. Where do the Joads go after they leave the box car?
  5. Who do the Joads find in the barn, and how do they help them?