Reading Check: The Grapes of Wrath

Use complete sentences throughout. Skip lines between questions.

I. Identify 20 of the following characters. One to two sentences each- must

include something related to their place in the plot.

1. Agnes 13. Rose of Sharon

2. Casy 14. Mae
3. Muley Graves 15. Floyd Knowles
4. Ezra Huston 16. Mr. Thomas
5. Al 17. Winfield
6. The Wainwrights 18. Timothy & Wilkie Wallace
7. Sairy Wilson 19. Ruthie
8. Willie Eaton 20. Jim Rawley
9. Jule Vitela 21. Tom
10. Connie 22. Lisbeth Sandry
11. Purty Boy Floyd 23. Noah
12. Uncle John 24. Joe Davis’ boy

II. Identify 10 of the following:

1. Okies 7. “The Land of Milk and Honey”

2. Weedpatch 8. stationery box
3. Hooverville 9. McAlester
4. boxcar 10. company store
5. turtle 11. handbills
6. Central Committees 12. Dust Bowl
13. $18.00

III. Answer 20 of the following questions. BE SPECIFIC IN YOUR ANSWERS.

1. What is the setting when the novel opens?

2. What is the significance of the title?
3. What did Tom do to cause him to be away from home?
4. How did the Joads obtain their family home?
5. What is the significance of the turtle’s release?
6. What has happened to the farmers in the area since Tom has
been gone? Why?
7. Where are most of the people going and why?
8. Why shouldn’t Tom go with them?
9. What is the significance of the used car dealer?
10. Why does Grampa decide not to go and how do they trick him?
11. What happens to Grampa?
12. How do the Joads decide to break the law and why?
13. What does the “ragged man” at the camp tell them about
California?
14. What are some of the rules that the migrants make as they
settle in make-shift camps?
15. What does Noah decide and why?
16. Where does Granma die?
17. Why do the people in California hate the Okies?
18. What makes the migrants a force to be reckoned with?
19. Why are the occupants of the make-shift towns constantly
moved on by the authorities?
20. Why did the land owners encourage so many people to come to
work?
21. What is Connie’s hope for the rest of his life?
22. Why did Uncle John save the $5?
23. What happens to Connie?
24. What does the Mr. Thomas warn the migrants about?
25. How does The Association attempt to disrupt the dance and
why?
26. How did the migrants amuse themselves?
27. Describe the family’s entrance into the peach camp.
28. What happens to Casy?
29. What does Tom want to do with his life and why?
30. What are Al’s plans?
31. What does Pa want to do about the rising water?
32. What happened to the baby?
33. What is wrong with the man they find in the barn? Why?
34. What is implied at the end of the novel?