Grapes

Question 1

wealth - 1

Answer 1

company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank – or the Company – needs – wants – insists – must have – as though the Bank or the Company were a monster

Question 2

wealth - 2

Answer 2

we’re half starved now. The kids are hungry all the time. We got no clothes, torn an’ ragged.

Question 3

wealth - 3

Answer 3

One man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families. Pay him a wage and take all the crop. We have to do it. We don’t like to do it.

Question 4

wealth - 4

Answer 4

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.

Question 5

deceit / failure - 1

Answer 5

Police from Los Angeles – stopped you bastards, turned you back. Says, if you can’t buy no real estate we don’t want you.

Question 6

deceit - 2

Answer 6

Ma suddenly seemed to know it was all a dream. She turned her head forward again and her body relaxed, but the little smile stayed around her eyes.

Question 7

lies and deceit - 3

Answer 7

Sure, nice to look at, but you can’t have none of it. They’s a grove of yella oranges

Question 8

deceit - 4

Answer 8

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ‘cause he feels awful poor inside hisself…..

Question 9

deceit - 5

Answer 9

the fruit grows heavy, and the limbs bend gradually under the fruit so that little crutches must be placed under them to support the weight.

Question 10

family - 1

Answer 10

And still the family stood about like dream walkers, their eyes focused panoramically, seeing no detail, but the whole dawn, the whole land, the whole texture of the country at once.

Question 11

family - 2

Answer 11

She [ ma] walked for the family and held her head straight for the family.

Question 12

family - 3

Answer 12

The family became a unit […] Pa was the head of the family now

Question 13

family - 4

Answer 13

The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

Question 14

gender - 1

Answer 14

The women went into the houses to their work, and the children began to play, but cautiously at first.

Question 15

gender - 2

Answer 15

The men sat in the doorways of their houses; their hands were busy with sticks and little rocks.

Question 16

gender - 3

Answer 16

The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled, but the women knew how the past would cry to them in the coming days.

Question 17

gender - 4

Answer 17

They left the men alone to figure and to wonder in the dust.

Question 18

American Dream - 1

Answer 18

Gonna get me a whole big bunch of grapes off a bush, or whatever, an’ I’m gonna squash ‘em on my face an’ let ‘em run offen my chin.

Question 19

American Dream - 2

Answer 19

…go on west to California? There’s work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there’s always some kind of crop to work in.