Rhetorical Devices
“We ain’t foreign. Seven generations back, Americans, and beyond that, Irish, Scotch, English, German.”
Answer: Lists
“The highways crowded— a _____ rush for work.” (Hint: what historical context?)
Answer: Gold
"He settled in Hooverville, and he scoured the countryside for work.”
Answer: Economic Struggle
Before the United States of America owned California, which country owned California?
Answer: Mexico
Were the Californian owners fearful of the migrants?
“Like ants scurrying for work,”
Answer: Metaphor
“Trying like a ____ to steal a little richness from the earth"
Answer: Earth
“... the owners followed Rome, although they did not know it. They imported slaves, although they did not call them slaves.”
Answer: Exploitation
Migrants on the way to California dreamed of what?
Answer: Accumulation, social success, amusement, luxury
As the price of labor decreased, the price of goods such as vegetables and cotton decreased with it.
Answer: False
“Fat-assed men with guns slung on fat hips, swaggering through the camps.”
Answer: Imagery
“ And a homeless ______ man, driving the roads with his wife behside him and his thin children"
Answer: Hunger
“So they gave him a blaster, an’ he died. It was what they call black tongue the kid had. Yeah, but them folks can’t bury them.”
Answer: Poverty and Agony
How many generations ago was the Civil War during the Great Depression (the time of the text)?
Steinbeck’s language and description emphasize growing fear and Animosity.
Answer: True
"Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered, feverish Americans poured in."
Answer: Personification
“I had my eye on you. This ain’t your ____. You’re trespassing.”
Answer: Land
“A fallow field is a sin and the unused land a crime against the thin children.”
Answer: Moral and Social Injustice
Why did people hate the Okies?
Answer: They had nothing to contribute; they had nothing
At the end of the chapter, was there an adult who got sick (black-tongue)?
Answer: False; It was a kid