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WorksheetsSteinbeck's "Breakfast" Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 24mins
"Breakfast" is set during what time period?
WWI
The Great Depression
Korean War
Modernism
Many of the migrant workers who were traveling to California were victims of what disaster?
The Spanish Flu pandemic
WWII
The Great Chicago Fire
The Dust Bowl
Steinbeck was a member of what literary movement?
New Regionalism
Southern Gothic
Literary Journalism
Epic Poetry
The story begin with "The thing fills me with pleasure. I don't know why, I can see it in the smallest detail." What is the point of view of this story?
1st person
2nd person
3rd person limited
3rd person objective
The narrator comes across a family early in the cold morning. What do they offer to him? (more than one)
A job
new clothes
a dozen eggs
breakfast
Why is it significant that this family showed kindness and generosity to the narrator?
Because he was a felon.
Because they were poor and had little.
Because they were very busy.
Because the narrator was a foreigner.
Besides preparing the food, what else was the young woman doing?
sewing clothes
washing dishes
singing a hymn
nursing a baby
Why was this family able to eat bacon, make fresh bread, and purchase new jeans?
They just received their unemployment checks.
They had found gold in the river.
They had worked for 12 days in a cotton field.
They had been hired to dig ditches along the railroad.
The fact that Steinbeck's narrator recalled this encounter as something beautiful demonstrates...
There are still moments of beauty in the midst of difficult times.
The narrator is not aware of the poverty of the people.
The narrator is an eternal optimist.
The landscape was so pretty that it is easy to forget how bad life was.
The family was made up of which members?
Father, mother, son, & daughter
Old father, son, wife, and child
Husband, wife, son, baby
Grandmother, daughter, husband, child
One of the themes of this story is:
The strength and humanity of the American Spirit.
The extreme disillusionment after the stock market crash.
The repressive gender roles of mid-century America.
Love conquers all things.
Why did the narrator not have a name in this story?
Because mankind is insignificant.
Because the story was really about the family and not about him.
Because he was an outlaw and hiding his identity.
Because he was actually dead.
