What Did John Steinbeck Describe in the Grapes of Wrath

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Multiple Choice

What did John Steinbeck describe in The Grapes of Wrath ?

• A) He described the horrors of working in the California vineyards.
• B) He described the challenges of industrial labor in the 1930s.
• C) He described the rise of the middle class despite the opposition of large corporations.
• D) He described the collapse of a capitalist society.
• E) He described the desperate struggles of an uprooted dust-bowl family.

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