The Grapes of Wrath Mega Quiz

What was the biggest reason that California was so popular with migrants at the time?

What is the purpose in the intercalary chapters?

Why did the dust storm start in the first place

What do the workers do when they learn the owners of the cotton farm are rigging the scale?

During what time period did the events of the books take place?

Who is the main family mentioned in The Grapes of Wrath?

Where did the moving people live (for short periods of time)

When did this story take place?

The turtle crosses the road alive.

The farmers wanted to leave.

What were the big corporations compared to?

John Steinbeck lived through The Great Depression

What are people who live and work on land not owned by themselves called?

True or false? The story took place in the 1940s

Most of the people who migrated to California were from the Midwest and South

Why were most people forced to move away from home?

The cars salesmen were very truthful and kind.

What animal was forced to cross a street in chapter 3?

John Steinbeck wanted The Grapes of Wrath to be historically accurate.

The migrants are forced to move

After the dust storm, the women knew that everything would not be ok because the men lost their minds.

Why did people have to move away from their homes?

True or false? The story took place during the Great Depression

Why did the banks plow people's homes over?

Who were the first Americans to settle in California?

Who were affected by The Great Depression?

Route 66 is not a busy road.

Why do land owners not like the migrant workers

At the road side café the truck drivers were....

Most people had cars or motor vehicles so it was easy to move

John Steinbeck was born in California

True or false? The banks forced them out of their homes

Why does Steinbeck make a whole chapter about a turtle crosses a street?

Where did the migrant workers go for jobs?

What decade did the Dust Bowl take place?

True or false? All the families split up and they were all alone

The Great Depression occurred in 1927

Was the dust deadly

What makes the farmers move to California?

Which of the following traits did the cars salesmen have.

What is the purpose of literature like this, that analyzes the Great Depression period?

What was the purpose of writing Grapes of Wrath

What stopped the migrants from simply finding a plot of land to live on and farming it?

Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath

Is there a "villain" in these chapters? Who (or what)is it?

What do the migrant workers do for pleasure when they have no money?

Where are the Joad Family from

Nobody was unaffected by the economic downturn of the 1930s

What hit the turtle in Chapter 3

What happens in California that does not allow the migrant workers to work for a while?