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Contemporary Reception and Reviews, The Film, and the Novels Place in Narrative History (TW)

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 * 1) After the Joads leave Weedpatch, they find work on the (Blank) ranch.
 * 2) The statement "The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads," is (Blank). a. metaphoric; b. hyperbolic; c. melodramatic; d. ironic; e. sarcastic.
 * 3) In the sentence, "He could not cheer or beat or curse or encourage the extension of his power, and because of this he could not cheer or whip or curse or encourage himself," parallelism is created through use of (Blank). a. anaphora; b. asyndeton; c. chiasmus; d. parenthetical interruption; e. synecdoche.
 * 4) One theme of the novel is that the general result of great human efforts has been to continually (Blank). a. slip back; b. surge ahead; c. meet dead ends; d. stumble forward; e. go in a circle.
 * 5) Al chooses the Hudson Super-Six car primarily because (Blank).
 * 6) The character who voices his opinion of Jim Casy by saying, "Once a fella's a preacher, he's always a preacher. That's somepin you can't get shut of .... Me, I always said they was preachers an' preachers. Got to pick 'em. I kinda like this fella. He ain't stiff," is (Blank).
 * 7) Ivy Wilson's brother, Will, was too angry and too poor to go to California after he (Blank). a. broke the connecting rod in his car; b. tried to stop his car by yelling "Whoa!"; c. lost a battle with his wife; d. lost his car in a flash flood; e. drove 200 miles in the wrong direction.
 * 8) Each of the following events occurs while the Joads are staying at Hooverville EXCEPT (Blank). a. Casy and Floyd Knowles are taken away by deputies; b. Connie disappears; c. Floyd Knowles punches a deputy; d. Uncle John gets drunk; e. a woman gets shot.
 * 9) In the novel, Steinbeck asserts that the nervousness of the Western states and the great owners, and the growing labor unity are all (Blank). a. results, not causes; b. ends, not means; c. just something that happened; d. separate entities; e. new threatening monsters.
 * 10) In the opening chapter of the novel, Steinbeck develops mood primarily through the use of (Blank). a. alliteration; b. different colors; c. personification; d. onomatopoeia; e. wildlife.
 * 11) The statement "a hunger in a stomach, multiplied a million times; a hunger in a single soul, hunger for joy and some security, multiplied a million times; muscles and mind aching to grow, to work, to create, multiplied a million times" relates MOST closely to (Blank). a. the phalanx theory; b. the principles of communism; c. teleological thinking; d. non-teleological thinking; e. stoicism.