Grapes of Wrath 2

Question 1

What did Steinbeck undertake in 1937 which enhanced his understanding of the immigrant experience?

Answer 1

a journey from Oklahoma to California

Question 2

What happened in October 1929 which contributed to The Great Depression?

Answer 2

The Wall Street Crash

Question 3

What years were the wars of The Great Plains?

Answer 3

1860-67 - demonstrated American expansionism and colonialism

Question 4

Quote from interchapter 5 which demonstrates the question of land ownership?

Answer 4

“you have to get off the land” “Grampa killed indians” “Pa was born here and killed snakes and weeds”

Question 5

What caused the dust bowl?

Answer 5

intensive farming and poor land management

Question 6

Who is the first character explored in Grapes? + quote

Answer 6

THE LAND! “To the red country and part of the gray country, the last rains came gently and they did not cut the scarred earth”

Question 7

Quote from IC 11 describing a tractor which demonstrates Steinbeck’s objection to industrial agriculture?

Answer 7

“the heat goes out of it like the living heat that leaves a corpse” compares to a horses “life” and “vitality”

Question 8

Who was the third president of the United States?

Answer 8

Thomas Jefferson

Question 9

What did Jefferson champion in his 1783 book ‘Notes on the state of Virginia’?

Answer 9

Agrarian economy

Question 10

What did Southern agrarians publish in the 1930s which opposed industrialised agriculture?

Answer 10

I’ll take my stand’

Question 11

Character and quote that embodies an inability adapt to the changing south

Answer 11

Muley Graves “graveyard ghost”

Question 12

Character that demonstrates the impurity of Gospel of Wealth ideas

Answer 12

Connie - abandons pregnant wife for lure of economic success

Question 13

Quote from IC 5 that shows changing nature of agriculture since the initial colonisation of the frontier”

Answer 13

“can’t make a living off the land unless you’ve got two, five, ten thousand acres and a tractor”

Question 14

Quote form IC 19 that demonstrates the clinical nature of agriculture

Answer 14

“chemists”

Question 15

How did the Marxist critic David Harvey describe capitalism in 2017?

Answer 15

“an offence against humanity that human history, if it survives that long, will regard severely”

Question 16

Personification of cars description in IC 12?

Answer 16

“cars limping along the road like wounded things”

Question 17

How can we link Ayn Rands novella ‘Anthem’ be linked to grapes?

Answer 17

depicted journey from we to I favoured individualism (opposite in GOW)

Question 18

Quote from Casy demonstrates transcendentalist ideas

Answer 18

“human sperit” “maybe all men got one big soul thay everybody a part of”

Question 19

Quote from Tom to show innocence to awareness (chapter 20)

Answer 19

“but now I know a fella aint no good alone”

Question 20

What did Ralph Waldo Emerson publish in 1841 which embodied transcendentalist ideas? + quote

Answer 20

‘The Oversoul’ “within man is the soul of the whole”

Question 21

The quality of owning freezes you forever into “I”….

Answer 21

……and cuts you off forever from the “we”

Question 22

What did Chomsky publish in 1999 that examined world economics and criticised neoliberalism (free market capitalism)?

Answer 22

“Profit over People”

Question 23

Casy quote demonstrating the futility of wealth

Answer 23

“If he’s poor in hisself, aint no million acres gonna make him feel rich”

Question 24

Tom accuses the truck driver of “working against

Answer 24

his own people” - demonstrates how in the face of adversity, individualism rises over transcendentalist thought

Question 25

Franz Eugene Cruz on the American Dream

Answer 25

the “sad irony” of the destruction of dreams in Grapes

Question 26

Published in 1936 by USA Communist Society

Answer 26

‘What is Communism?

Question 27

Jenn Williamson commends

Answer 27

Steinbeck’s “literary realism” and rejection of the trope American Dream

Question 28

Susan Shillinglaw on the portrayal of Ma

Answer 28

“fervent believer, not a pushover”

Question 29

Idea of metal symbolism in Grapes

Answer 29

“Ma’s “steel grey hair” could draw comparison with Daisy as the “golden girl”

Question 30

Describe the store owners behaviour towards Ma

Answer 30

teases her with things she can’t afford - establishes power play - “laughing delightedly”

Question 31

muscles aching to work

Answer 31

minds aching to create….this is man

Question 32

The Grapes of Wrath are growing heavy

Answer 32

heavy for the vintage

Question 33

The Women and Children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if…

Answer 33

their men were whole

Question 34

Why Tom, we’re the peoplr that live…

Answer 34

…They ain’t gonna wipe us out

Question 35

worse off we get….

Answer 35

…..the more we got to do

Question 36

Whereever there’s a fight so

Answer 36

hungry people can eat, I’ll be there

Question 37

the house was dead, and the fields were dead, but the truck was

Answer 37

the active thing….the new hearth, the living center of the family

Question 38

only means to destroy revolt were considered

Answer 38

while the causes of the revolt went on

Question 39

men who have created new fruits

Answer 39

of the world cannot create a system whereby the fruits may be eaten…. the failure hangs over the state like a great sorrow

Question 40

children must die

Answer 40

because a profit cannot be taken from an orange

Question 41

Dias on Feminism and Ma

Answer 41

she represents the ideal universal mother, because she not only nurtures her children, but those who are in need