1B:
Grapes of Wrath Quiz Questions1. What is an earth auger?
A. a tool that makes holes in the ground
2. How much did a farmer make a day?
A. $3.00 a day
3. What does perplexed mean?
A. to embarrass
4. How many acres of land did the bank have?
A. 50,000
5. Lots of families in the east would like to own a
piece of what
A. land
6. Where does the bank get any orders?
A. the east
7. Why did they move westward to the camps?
A. to earn money for their families
8. Why did they want to fight for the land?
A. The government tried to take it away
9. What did they compare the tractor to?
A. Insects
10. A man can hold land if he can, what?
A. Eat and pay taxes.
11. Some of the owner men were kind because…
A. They hated what they had to do.
12. Why did a man sitting on a tractor not look like
a man?
A. Because they wore gloves, goggles and a
rubber dust mask on their face.
13. Why was the land getting poor?
A.The cotton was sucking all the blood out of
the land
14. How could they pump blood into the land?
A. They could have rotated their crops
15. Why wasn’t the tent system working anymore?
A. A tractor could do the work of 12-14 men
New Deal Quiz Questions1. What year was Franklin Denlano Roosevelt
elected?
A. 1910
2. When was franklin Delano Roosevelt born
A. January 30 1882
3. what age was franklin struck with paralysis
A. 39
4. what was the percent of votes franklin got when
he got elected president?
A. 57.3%
5. On March 12, 1933 what did he do?
A. Made a radio address to tell the people of
plans for the country .
6. How many days did the bank close for?
A. 4 days.
7. who did franklin Roosevelt marry?
A. Delenor roosevelt
8. what age was he married?
A. at age 23
9. when was FDR born
A. January 30 1882
10. what does the ccc stand for
A. civilian conservation corps
11. what is a tenant farmer?
A. they live on land that somebody else owns.
12. how were the tractors coming over the fields
described as.
A. insects.
13. why were the owner men were so kind
A. because they hated what they had to do
14. what did people describe when they first saw
tractors
A.
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2B:
Grapes of Wrath Quiz Questions1. what did the people describe the bank as?
A. a monster
2. Why did farmers move to California?
A. to find jobs
3. one man on a tractor can take place of how
many families
A. 12 or 14
4. who is the author of grapes of wrath
A. stienbeck
5. How were the people from Oklahoma treated?
A. with disrespect
6. What did the farmers mean by BLOOD?
A. water
7. How much money would the tenant pay Joe
Davis’s boy?
A.three dollars a day
8. Why were tenant farmers devastated about
leaving their homes?
A. That’s where they were born and raised.
9. Why did some people worship mathematics?
A. it provided a refuge from thought and from
feeling.
10. What did they describe tractors as when they
first saw them?
A. like insects
11. Who explained the workings and the thinkings
of the monster/bank?
A. The owner men
12.
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New Deal Quiz Questions1. When was FDR born?
A. Jan. 30, 1882
2. Who did FDR marry?
A. Elanor Rosevelt
3. When was FDR married
A. When he was 23
4. When did Roosevelt enter politics?
A. In 1910
5. At age 39, Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed
with what?
A. Infantile paralysis (polio)
6. What were the three R’s of his program?
A. Relief, recovery, and reform
7. What assistance did franklin need in order to
walk?
A. leg braces
8. what age was franklin strluck infinite paralysis,
a type of polio that usually affects children.
A. 39
9. What did many people want FDR to retire from!
A. Public life
10. when did Roosevelts life take a bad turn?
A. in 1921 at age 39
11. on what day did roosevelts make aradio
address
A. march 12, 1933
12. Who were Raymond Moley, Adolf A. Berle and
Rexford G. Tugwell?
A. FDR’s Brain Trust
13. How many men were hired to build new dams?
A. 40,000 men
14. How many major bills and acts did he make
during his term?
A. 6
15. When was inauguration day?
A. March 4th
16. Where was FDR born?
A. Hyde Park, New York
17. What was his nickname?
A. “Feather Duster” Roosevelt (FDR)
18. Where did FDR go to get better?
A. Warm Springs, Georgia
3B:
Grapes of Wrath Quiz Questions1. What did the land owners refer to the bank as?
A. A monster
2. Where were most of the people heading to?
A. The West
3. Who gave orders to the land owners?
A. The Bank
4. How did they describe the tractors?
A. Strong insects
5. Why did they have to move?
A. The bank wanted the land
6. What did the farmer build with his bare hands?
A. The house
7. what were the people called who lived on the
land but did not own it?
A. tenants /squatters
8. true or false 1 man on a tractor can replace 1214 families?
A. true
9. how much money did people make in a day?
A. $3
10. what is a tenat
A person who rents land
11. what did the farmers have to give up
A. the land
12. what did the people mean when they said “the
cropland isn’t good for us little guys anymore.”
A. you have to have a lot of money to own the
land
New Deal Quiz Questions1. How old was Roosevelt when he was struck with
paralysis?
A. 39
2. How long was he in the Rehabilitation center in
Georgia?
A. 2 years
3. What tradition did he break?
A. Accepting the Presidential Nomination in
Person
4. What did the Emergency Baking Bill do?
A. It regulated all banking procedures in the
future.
5. What are the three R’s
A. Relief, Reform, Recovery
6. when was F.D.R. born
A. January 30, 1882
7. When did FDR make a radio address to tell
Americans his plans
A. March 12,1933
8. How old was he when he got married?
A. 29
9. What was the disease FDR had?
A. Paralysis
10. What was the year that FDR enter Politics?
A. 1910
11. Where was FDR born?
A. Hyde Park, New York
12. What year was he paralyzed?
A. 1921
13. What did people joke about with his initials?
A. That it can be represent Feather Duster
Roosevelt
14. When was he elected for governor of New
York?
A.1928
15. How many electoral votes did he get?
A. 427 Votes
16. What did Roosevelt need to assist him in
walking?
A. Leg braces and a cane
4B:
Grapes of Wrath Quiz Questions1. How did they try to stop the dust?
A. They tried to keep the top from flying up
2. What was the only thing that could grow?
A. Cotton.
3. Why were the farmers mad they had to move?
A. They had a history on it.
4. How much money did the tractor drivers get a
day?
A. $3
5. Who did the tractor drivers get their orders
from?
A. The bank
6. What is making the land poorer?
A. cotton
7. How much land did the bank own?
A. Fifty-Thousand acres
8. What came over the road and into the field?
A. A tractor
9. Did you have to own a lot of land to make
money?
A. Yes
10. what could the squatters do if they could only
rotate the crops?
A. pump blood back into the farms.
11. What did Pa kill when he was living on the
farm?
A. Weeds and snakes
12. What is said to move like insects as well as
having the same strength?
A. tractors
13.What does cotton do to the land?
A.Robs it
14. How many people where on the road with only
three dollars?
A. Hundred people
15. What did people lose?
A. Their jobs
New Deal Quiz Questions1. When was Roosevelt born?
A. January 30, 1882
2. Where was Roosevelt born?
A. Hyde Park, New York
3. When did Roosevelt enter politics?
A. 1910
4. What disease did Roosevelt have?
A. Infantile Paralysis
5. What percentage of electoral votes did
Roosevelt get?
A. 57.3%
6. Who helped him become healthy to become
president?
A. His wife
7. When was he elected Governor of New York?
A. 1928
8. How many votes did he get?
A. 472
9. When did the New York Stock Exchange close
down?
A. March 4
10. What kind of schools did he attend?
A. Private schools
11. What age did he get Infantil Paralysis?
A. 39
12. What body part did the disease effect?
A. Spinal cord
13.What are the two major political parites?
A. Republicans and democrats
14. What year did he run for President?
A. 1932
15. What college did Roosevelt go to?
A. Harvard
16.What was Roosevelt’s goal when he became
president?
A. To turn the economy around
17. What did people think of him?
A. That he was a political lightweight
18. How long did it take him to recover from Infantile
Paralysis?
A. 2 years
19. What did people say when joking about his initials?
A. “Feather Duster” Roosevelt
20. When did he issue a bank holiday?
A. March 6th