Chapter Review - the Grapes of Wrath (ch. 20&21)

Chapter 22

80. Name some of the key features of the government's Weedpatch camp. What does each reveal about the situation faced by the Joads and others at the camp? The Weedpatch camp is noteworthy as there are no cops around: the migrants make their own laws. The presence of a "ladies committee" indicates the relative affluence of the camp.

81. How does Tom pick up work early the next day at the camp? In wandering around the camp, Tom makes his acquaintance with the Wallace family who offer to take him along on a job that they have worked for 12 days.

82. What complicates Tom's new job? The Wallace family tells him that the job will only last a few days, that their pay has been cut, and that also the government camp will be broken up on account of a pre-planned riot.

85. Back in the camp, what new adventure do Ruthie and Winfield have with fixtures in the camp? Ruthie brags that she has already experienced the adventures of the newfound toilets; however, when Winfield flushes the toilet, they believe that it has been broken and promise not to tell anyone.

86. How does Ma get along with: a. Jim Rawley? b. a religious, sun-tanned woman that frightened Rose of Sharon? c. the Ladies' Committee of Sanitary Unit Number Four? While Ma gets along well with the committee and Jim Rawley, the manager, she and everyone else seems to be a bit disturbed by Mrs. Sandry, the mentally-ill religious fanatic.

87. Ruthie, in an attempt to be force her will upon others, learns that she must wait her turn; in particular, in a game, but generally in life.

88. It seems that the government camp is not all it is made out to be; the migrant workers are not appreciated, if not blatantly rejected.