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1)
Collection of stories
2)
Newspaper editorial
3)
Epic poem
4)
Personal memoir
5)
Stage play
1)
Dissonant symphony
2)
The murder
3)
Something that happened
4)
Argument of phalanx
5)
The leader of the people
1)
Bombing of Hiroshima
2)
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
3)
End of the Great Depression
4)
Beginning of World War I
5)
End of World War II
1)
Leave without finishing it
2)
Take over the film
3)
Completely change the story
4)
Put his name first in the credits
5)
Give it to another director
1)
Cannery Row
2)
East of Eden
3)
In Dubious Battle
4)
The Pearl
5)
Viva Zapata!
1)
Ed Ricketts
2)
Toby Street
3)
John Steinbeck
4)
Caroline Decker
5)
Clark Kerr
1)
It Did Happen in Salinas
2)
Of Mice and Men
3)
Their Blood is Strong
4)
The Plow that Broke the Plains
5)
Factories in the Field
1)
"Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California"
2)
"Ditched, Stalled, and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California"
3)
"Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor (1940-42)"
4)
"Documentary History of the Strike of the Cotton Pickers in California 1933"
5)
"An American Exodus"
1)
They thought The Grapes of Wrath was more like a documentary than a novel.
2)
They disagreed with the way growers and Oklahomans were portrayed.
3)
They felt the migrant workers were shown more positively than in real life.
4)
They believed Steinbeck had based his characters on real people.
5)
They thought Steinbeck's depiction of the Dust Bowl was mistaken.
1)
Departing Oklahoma
2)
Passing the California border
3)
The first morning of the family's trip
4)
Seeing California in the distance
5)
Leaving the Joad property
1)
Potential death
2)
A test of endurance
3)
A burden
4)
Defeat
5)
Adventure
12)
1)
Grampa's younger brother
2)
Pa's older brother
3)
A cousin whom everyone calls uncle
4)
Ma's older brother
5)
Pa's younger brother
1)
Falls in love
2)
Goes on a drinking binge
3)
Passes away from disease
4)
Leaves the family to make a life of his own
5)
Runs away with another family
1)
Tom
2)
Jim Rawley
3)
Ruthie
4)
Grampa
5)
Ma
1)
Rose of Sharon
2)
Ruthie
3)
Aggie Wainright
4)
Ivy Wilson
5)
Sairy Wilson
1)
Greed of large farmers
2)
Dust covered land
3)
Desperation of migrant workers
4)
Hope of the youngest migrants
5)
Shape of Highway 66
1)
They cannot find a place to live.
2)
They are offered work elsewhere.
3)
There is no work for Pa.
4)
Tom is in danger.
5)
They are not welcome there.
1)
Thinks Winfield will get hurt
2)
Thinks he has broken it
3)
Worries they will get in trouble
4)
Fears it will wake people up
5)
Believes it is dangerous
19)
1)
Starvation
2)
Fire
3)
Poverty
4)
Earthquakes
5)
Floods
1)
Biblical
2)
Staccato
3)
Erchapter
4)
Dialect
5)
Ernal monologue
1)
Capturing the unique Okie dialect for his characters
2)
Serving as a role model of the typical migrant worker
3)
Taking pictures of the migrant workers
4)
Sharing what Hooverville camps looked like
5)
Serving as a liaison between the author and the government
1)
The Waste Land
2)
Paradise Lost
3)
Ulysses
4)
Songs of Innocence and Experience
5)
The Bible
1)
Rain
2)
Poverty
3)
Death
4)
Dust
5)
Hunger
1)
Red
2)
Green
3)
Brown
4)
Black
5)
Gray
1)
Farmers
2)
Government
3)
Dust
4)
Migrants
5)
Poverty
1)
Government
2)
Sorrow
3)
Purification
4)
Prejudice
5)
Despair
1)
Creativity
2)
Obsession
3)
Family
4)
Love
5)
Loss
1)
Tedious
2)
Socialistic
3)
Fictional
4)
Propaganda
5)
Plagiarized
1)
Philip Rahv
2)
Charles Poore
3)
Eleanor Roosevelt
4)
Burton Rascoe
5)
William Randolph Hearst
1)
High unemployment
2)
The stock market crash
3)
Bank runs
4)
Long breadlines
5)
Homelessness
1)
Studs Terkel
2)
Meridel le Sueur
3)
Carl Sandburg
4)
Langston Hughes
5)
Zora Neale Hurston
1)
Music for George and Ira Gershwin
2)
Articles for newspapers
3)
Poetry for anthologies
4)
Lyrics for songs in movies
5)
Songs for political campaigns
1)
Documentary film
2)
Oral history
3)
Epic poetry
4)
Lyrical fiction
5)
Imaginative nonfiction
1)
Year of her birth
2)
Year of her death
3)
Place of her birth
4)
Place she was born
5)
Spelling of her name
1)
Eugene O'Neill
2)
Frank Boas
3)
Nancy Cunard
4)
Alice Walker
5)
Charlotte Osgood Mason
1)
Mosquitoes
2)
As I Lay Dying
3)
The Sound and the Fury
4)
Sanctuary
5)
Soldier's Pay
1)
Carl Sandburg
2)
Studs Terkel
3)
William Faulkner
4)
Langston Hughes
5)
Zora Neale Hurston
1)
Novel
2)
History
3)
Biography
4)
Poetry
5)
Drama
1)
On a train
2)
At work
3)
In Mexico
4)
In college
5)
With his father
1)
Stock market crash
2)
End of World War I
3)
Beginning of World War II
4)
Committee of Un-American Activities
5)
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
1)
Not without Laughter
2)
The Weary Blues
3)
"Mule Bone"
4)
A poem for Clarence Norris
5)
"Harvest"
1)
Poetic persona
2)
The first pioneers
3)
The homeless
4)
The spirit of the country
5)
The migrant worker
1)
Congenial
2)
Abashed
3)
Presumptuous
4)
Incredulous
5)
Jocular
1)
Refuses to help him
2)
Thinks he is deranged
3)
Believes he is trying to hide his real destination
4)
Does not take him seriously
5)
Believes him to be confused
1)
Play
2)
Autobiography
3)
Biography
4)
Erview
5)
Poem
1)
Transparently
2)
Indescribably
3)
Invariably
4)
Condescendingly
5)
Disproportionately
1)
Flora
2)
Seeds
3)
Gardens
4)
Agriculture
5)
Harvest
1)
Crystal rocks
2)
A lake of sunshine
3)
Glorious gardens
4)
Songs of the meadowlarks
5)
Another wilderness
1)
Muir's discovery of the Sierra Valley
2)
The flora and fauna in Yosemite
3)
The difficulty of finding a new wilderness to explore.
4)
Muir's experience on a Panama steamer
5)
The ways in which mankind has scarred the land
1)
See its flora and explore the land
2)
Create a map of the Yosemite Valley
3)
Begin planting crops and herding cattle
4)
Build a house for his family
5)
Write about it for newspapers