Characters
Events in Chapters
Themes
Vocabulary
Plot
100
Who is the "leader" of the family, helps the family, and just got out of prison.
Tom Joad
100
Sets the "tone" for the rest of the book, opens and establishes the "backdrop"
What is Chapter 1
100
What creates a strong bond even as Ma feels like things are falling apart?
What is Family
100
sheet iron or steel with parallel grooves and ridges to give it added strength in construction.
What is corrugated iron
100
What was the name of the government camp that the Joads temporarily lived at?
What is Weedpatch
200
Ex-preacher, helps Tom, Travels with the Joads, ends up getting killed
Pastor Jim Casy
200
As the truck returns to the highway, Tom walks down the road toward his family's farm. The hot sun beats down on him, so he takes off his shoes and wraps them in his coat. Spying the horned turtle from the previous chapter, he picks it up and wraps it in the coat as well.
What is Chapter 4
200
A theme expressed through Ma taking the head position of the family rather than Pa or Uncle John?
What is Gender
200
An early type of open automobile, often with a folding top, seating five or more passengers.
What is touring car
200
Where did the Joad family originally live?
What is Sallisaw Oklahoma
300
The emotional and physical backbone of the family
What is Ma Joad
300
Casy and Tom leave for Uncle John's house at daybreak. While walking, Tom describes Uncle John to Casy, coloring him as a lonely, somewhat touched older man.
What is Chapter 8
300
The difference throughout the book that keeps the migrants apart from the Californians?
What is Wealth
300
A soft white metal of tin, lead, copper, and antimony in various proportions, used to reduce friction as in bearings.
What is babbitt
300
What is the conclusion of the book?
What is Rose of Sharon giving the ultimate sacrifice of her breast milk to the stranger
400
The eldest Joad son is quiet and strange, but not retarded, as he would seem at first glance.
What is Noah Joad
400
As the dispossessed stream out of the Plains land, the houses of the tenant farmers are left vacant. The only life left in the area is the shiny metal sheds that house the tractors.
What is Chapter 11
400
The theme expressed through handouts and the migration of thousands of families that were promised work that wasn't there?
What is Lies and Betrayal
400
A member of a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting a large area of the south Allegheny Mountains, now in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
What is Cherokee
400
The chapter that didn't follow the pattern of the Joad family or the migrant worker chapters?
What is Chapter 15
500
Who did Rose of Sharon feed from her breasts?
What is the boy's father
500
The family takes Granma's body to the coroner in Bakersfield but can only spare five dollars for her burial.
What is Chapter 20
500
The theme expressed by the extreme faith of some families and the talk of others who didn't live what they preached, also expressed through the character of Jim Casy?
What is Religion
500
An embankment built alongside a river to prevent flooding
What is a levee
500
Where does the Joad family go to pick peaches?
What is Hooper Ranch
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