Q 01/05

In which year was The Grapes of Wrath published?

A) 1939

B) 1941

C) 1943

D) 1945

Answer · why

A) 1939

It was the best-selling book of that year in the US, with 430,000 copies printed by February 1940.

Q 02/05

The Joads' home farm is near which small Oklahoma town?

A) Tulsa

B) Sallisaw

C) Muskogee

D) Guthrie

Answer · why

B) Sallisaw

Drought, the Dust Bowl and bank foreclosures push the family west.

Q 03/05

At the start of the novel, Tom Joad has just been paroled from which prison?

A) Leavenworth

B) Alcatraz

C) McAlester

D) Folsom

Answer · why

C) McAlester

He had been convicted of homicide but insisted he acted in self-defence; leaving the state breaks his parole.

Q 04/05

What was Jim Casy's former occupation before he lost his faith?

A) Schoolteacher

B) Banker

C) Sheriff

D) Preacher

Answer · why

D) Preacher

Steinbeck based this Christ-like figure on his friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts.

Q 05/05

The Joads make the journey west in what kind of vehicle?

A) A horse-drawn farm wagon

B) A Hudson sedan converted into a truck

C) A retired yellow school bus

D) A borrowed Ford Model T

Answer · why

B) A Hudson sedan converted into a truck

They load their remaining possessions onto it at Uncle John's place.