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

Near which Oklahoma town is the Joad family's farm in The Grapes of Wrath?

A) Okmulgee

B) Sallisaw

C) Muskogee

D) Checotah

Answer · why

B) Sallisaw

Sallisaw: when Tom returns home there from prison, he finds the farm deserted because the bank has evicted the family.

Q 03/05

At the start of The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad has just been paroled from which prison?

A) Leavenworth

B) Alcatraz

C) McAlester

D) Folsom

Answer · why

C) McAlester

McAlester: Tom got out after four years of a seven-year sentence, but leaving Oklahoma with his family means breaking his parole.

Q 04/05

What was Jim Casy's former occupation in The Grapes of Wrath?

A) Schoolteacher

B) Blacksmith

C) Sheriff

D) Preacher

Answer · why

D) Preacher

Preacher: Casy quit after deciding that 'there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue', only things people do, some nice and some not.

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 flatbed

Answer · why

B) A Hudson sedan converted into a truck

A Hudson sedan converted into a truck: it carries the family all the way to California, but the winter floods finally leave it stalled and useless.