Quotations Grapes of wrath

Question 1

Our people got nothing but because they can ask their friends

Answer 1

(…)makes them proud

Question 2

They dance together:

Answer 2

Swing to the left swing to the right

Question 3

Got five men looking over the gate login over the folks

Answer 3

Try spit them before the git started

Question 4

It’s goddamn lucky we got the word that

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They was gunna bust up the dance

Question 5

Men had on their best clothes,

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Freshly washed overalls, clean blue shirts

Question 6

The people were

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Intent and excited

Question 7

If they can get a fight going

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Then they can run the cops an say we ain’t orderly

Question 8

Open up

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We hear you have a riot

Question 9

We don’t need warrant if

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There’s a riot

Question 10

Well, we ain’t

Answer 10

Got no riots here

Question 11

Don’t knife your own folks

Answer 11

Yore just harming yourself

Question 12

Been going to the wilderness like Jesus

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To try find sompin out

Question 13

Well they was nice fellas ya see

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What made em bad was they needed stuff

Question 14

We all got to yellin (…)

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Then something happened! They came a runnin and they gave us some other stuff to eat

Question 15

Folks is their

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Own cops

Question 16

We can’t last much longer

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Some people ain’t ate for to days

Question 17

Cops cause more trouble than

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They stop

Question 18

Think pa’s gonna give up his

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Meat for another fella?

Question 19

Think ma’s gonna wants starve that baby just because

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A bunch a fellas is yellin outside?

Question 20

Doing it because

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You have to

Question 21

Nervous as a cat

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We’re all nurvous

Question 22

Hate to

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Leave my tent

Question 23

Shut up you red

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Son of a bitch

Question 24

You don’t know what

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You’re a doing

Question 25

The crushing blow

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Found the head

Question 26

A Men’s gotta live before they

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Can afford to die

Question 27

‘Me i don’t know where

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I’m goin’

Question 28

‘They got to live before

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They can afford to die’ JC

Question 29

‘Fella should maybe keep stuff like that in his head’ who said it?

Answer 29

Jim Casey

Question 30

‘I guess every time pa seen writing

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Somebody took something away from him’

Question 31

‘Ma was heavy, but not fat

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Thick with child, barring work’

Question 32

‘Her face was not soft, it was

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Controlled calmly’

Question 33

‘She seemed to know that if she swayed,

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The whole family shook’

Question 34

‘Tommy don’t you go

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Fighting them alone’

Question 35

‘Granma who only survived

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Because she was mean to her husband’

Question 36

‘Maybe we can start again,

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In the new rich land’

Question 37

‘But you can’t start only a baby can start. You and me

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Why were all that’s been’

Question 38

Tom watched her working,

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And his eyes smiled’

Question 39

‘Her whole thought and action were directed inward on the baby’ who is this about?

Answer 39

Rosharn

Question 40

‘The barrier of loneliness cut

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Uncle John off from people and appetites’

Question 41

Al- ‘aren’t you scairt it won’t be

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Nice like we thought?’

Question 42

‘Countries movin’ aroun’ goin’ places

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There’s folks dying all around’ (guy at the petrol station)

Question 43

‘Granma moved with dignity and held her head high.

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She walked for the family’

Question 44

‘The government got more interest in a dead man

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Than an alive man’ -Tom

Question 45

‘Anyone can break down

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It takes a man not to’

Question 46

‘The hoards crawled

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Forward as a unit’

Question 47

‘Pa was amazed at

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The revolt’

Question 48

‘She was power, she had

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Taken control’

Question 49

‘All we got is family

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Unbroke’

Question 50

‘One person with their minds made up

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Can shove a lot of folks around’

Question 51

‘The wills thrust westward

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And fears lingered with anything that may stop the westward crawling’

Question 52

‘This here’s California and she doesn’t look so

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Prosperous’

Question 53

‘At least we can starve to death

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With folks we know’

Question 54

‘Oakie used to mean you was from Oklahoma

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Now it means you’re a dirty son of a bitch’

Question 55

‘If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich then it seems to me

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He needs it because he feels awful poor inside’

Question 56

‘’She’s flighty as a dog

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With a flea in its ear’

Question 57

‘She wasn’t scairt

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Of nothing’

Question 58

‘Her face was stif

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And putty like’

Question 59

‘The family looked at ma with a

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Little terror at her strenghth’

Question 60

‘Who’s really seeing it is

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Ruthie and winfel’

Question 61

‘The truck rolled

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Down the mountain’

Question 62

‘A fella eats well in

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Jail’

Question 63

‘If I’d have know it would have been like this

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I wouldn’t have come’

Question 64

‘ you get a hold of ya self

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You’re a feelin sorry for ya self’

Question 65

‘Well if ya see a young snot nose name Connie

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Looks a bit like a coyote tell I’m go to hell’

Question 66

‘They’re working away

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At our spirits’

Question 67

‘Tom blew his nose out the window and

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Wiped his eyes on his sleeve’

Question 68

‘Those folks in the camp are getting

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Used to being treated like humans’