Shawn Tolmsoff Movie Quiz: The Grapes of Wrath
Answer all questions in each set correctly to receive full credit for the point assigned.
Please type your answers out. Put your name, my name, date, course and course section
at the top of your quizzes and make sure they are turned in by the required date. Short
answers will suffice.
1st Set of Questions Worth One Point:
1. What did the man who hitched a ride go to go to jail for?
2. How were the tenant farmer/sharecroppers driven off their land?
3. Where were Tom Joad and his family headed and for what kind of work?
2nd Set of Questions Worth One Point:
1. What does Tom’s mother give grandpa in order to get him into the car?
2. What did the children of the man on the porch die from?
3. What was the first town the Joad family stopped in and then took a swim?
3rd Set of Questions Worth One Point:
1. Who was arrested for hitting the police officers?
2. Why was the Joad Family turned back after they left the migrant camp?
3. Why did the guards at the Keene Ranch kill Jim Casy?
4th Set of Questions Worth One Point:
1. What was the cost per week to stay at the government run wheat campground?
2. What happened to the men who were trying to start a fight at the dance?
3. Why did Tom leave the government run camp?
5th Set of Questions Worth One Point:
1. Where did the Joad family head for after leaving the government campground?
2. How many days work were they promised?
3. In the final monologue Ma explains to Pa why their family has survived for so
long. When she says, “We’re the people” whom is she referring to?