Honors Karcher Grapes of Wrath Part 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
After the damage of the dust storm, the women knew that everything would be alright because the men did not break down. | True |
The only reason the trucker gives Tom a ride is so he looks like a good guy. | True |
The single word that satisfies the trucker's curiosity is murder. | False |
Tom picks up the turtle as a present for Winfield. | True |
Casey has given up his profession because he laid with girls in the grass after giving meetings. | True |
Uncle John broke his leg jumping over a feeney bush. | False |
Uncle John traded Pa six spools of wire for a shoat (young cow). | False |
Joe Davis' boy earns three dollars a day driving a tractor. | True |
When Tom and Casy find the Joad home abandoned, one reason Tom knows everyone else is gone is because all the windows are broken out. | False |
Another reason Tom know everyone else is gone is because all the lumber remains in the house. | True |
Tom calls Muley the Graveyard Ghost because he is the only one left | False |
Muley's father was killed by Indians. | False |
Muley reluctantly shares his dinner with Tom and Casy, some rabbits he caught. | True |
That night, Muley sleeps in a cave dug by Tom and Noah when they were kids. | True |
The way salesmen get people to buy cars is to have them take up their time. | True |
After Uncle John's wife died in childbirth, he felt bad and was always trying to make up for it by being especially nice to kids by leaving them gum and stuff. | False |
Noah seems a little slow because he was born breach. As there was no midwife, Pa had to deliver him himself | False |
Rose of Sharon is the second oldest Joad child | False |
The first Joad to see Tom return from prison is Ma. | False |
Everyone asks Tom if he busted out of Leavenworth | False |
Grandma's favorite cry is Praise for Lord for vittory | False |
Al oversaw the purchase of the Joad vehicle. They paid $75 for it. | True |
The Joads know there is work in California because handbills told them so. | True |
Al receives the compliment "you growed up good: from Grandpa. | True |
At the family meeting the figufe head of the family government sits on the running board of the truck. | True |
Tom and Noah slaughtered the pigs. First Tom hit them twice over the head with the blunt end of the ax and Noah slit their throats. | True |
Ma burns the contents of the stationery box | False |
They get Grandpa to go on the trip by getting him drunk. | False |
The Joads own three dogs but when they whistle for the, only one shows up. They ask Muley to look after the other two | True |
When the journey begins, there are 14 on the truck | False |
Ruthie is the most upset when their dog gets run over. | False |
The first stop they make on their trip is because Grandma has to go to the bathroom | True |
The Joads stop the first night next to Mr. Sairy Wilson and his wife Ivy. | False |
Grandpa dies on the Wilson's quilt just outside the Wilson's tent | False |
Ma wants to replace the Wilson's quilt because Grandpa died on it and you will never be able to get the smell out of it. | True |
Ma writes the note that is put in a jar and buried with Grandpa | False |
After the prayer is said over the body, each man takes the shovel and throws in a shovelful of dirt. | True |
Ma keeps the family together by wielding a tire iron and threatening violence if they separate. | True |
Tom and Casy go into town to the junkyard to try to find a replacement conrod for the Wilson's car. | False |
Paying 50 cents keeps the Joads from being called vagrants at a roadside camp. | True |
A shitheel is a customer is the greasy-spoon diner who gets toilet paper stuck on their shoe | False |
Truckers are the diner's best customers. | True |
Mae says the candies are tow for a penny but really they are two for a nickel. | False |
An Okie is a dirty son of a bitch. | True |
Ma chases off some religious zealots interested inproying over Grandma by saying Grandma is too tired | True |
A deputy threatens to run Ma in if they are cample there tomorrow. Ma, in return, threatens him with a skillet | True |
Sairy asks to see Casy because she knows she is dying and wants to ask him to pray for her. | True |
The Joads and Wilsons part because Mrs. Wilson is too sick to go on. | True |
As they cross the desert by night, in the back of the truck, Rose of Sharon and her husband reconsumate their marriage. | True |
Ma is reluctant to have the truck inspected because she knows they have contraband and will not pass the inspection and be stopped at the border. | False |
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