Grapes of Wrath

2. Recently paroled man who returns to his family’s Oklahoma farm in chapter 2
3. Place where Tom and the truck driver talk while riding toward the Joad farm
5. Last name of the family forced to leave their land in Oklahoma
7. Small piece of land that was once farmed by individual families
8. Nickname used for families fleeing Oklahoma to search for work in the West
9. can decide which ones end up vertical or horizontal when you build your crossword.
12. State where the Joads hope to find work and a better life
13. Casy’s former role in town before he gives up preaching
15. Animal slowly crossing the road that symbolizes struggle and persistence
16. Natural disaster that ruins Oklahoma farms and darkens the sky in chapter 1
18. Type of farmer who rents land and pays the owner with part of the crop

1. Machine used by banks and companies to knock down tenant houses and crops
2. Kind of farmer forced off the land by the bank and big companies
4. Cold, distant owner of the land that orders the tenants to leave
6. Former preacher who questions religion and travels with Tom
7. Vehicle the Joads depend on for traveling and hauling their belongings
10. Word for a worker who moves from place to place in search of jobs
11. Place Tom Joad has just been released from at the start of the novel
14. Region of the Great Plains ruined by drought and windstorms
17. Legal process that forces families off their farms when they cannot pay debts
19. Farm tool that once cut the soil before tractors replaced it