INFORMATION FOR THE ACADEMIC DECATHLON TEAM CHAPTER 26

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Chapter 26, Page 53 of the authorized text:

1. Page 350: Malnutrition setting in.
2. Page 350: If the camp store provides credit, why are Winfield and Rose of Sharon not well fed?
3. Page 350: Ma continues to take the lead.
4. Page 350: The men defend their attempts to find work.
5. Page 350: Ma demands a decision.
6. Page 351: Fruit to pick in Marysville-it is too far.
7. Page 351: Cotton to pick in Tulare-They have the gas to go there.
8. Page 352: They decide to leave.
9. Page 352: Ma is ready to fight.
10. Page 352: Ma says to get action from a man, it is necessary to make him angry.
11. Page 353: Al says the car is ready.
12. Page 354: Rose of Sharon is still mooning about Connie.
13. Page 354: Why is Rose of Sharon eating slack lime?
14. Page 354: Why does Ma give her earrings to Rose of Sharon?
15. Page 354: Ear piercing
16. Page 355: What is the connection between the earrings and the baby?
17. Page 355: Al's promise to marry the blond girl
18. Page 356: Al satisfies himself.
19. Page 356: Al says he will return with a pocket full of jack.
20. Page 356: Pa tells Mr. Huston that the Joad's are leaving.
21. Page 356: Pa has become accustomed to a daily bath.
22. Page 357: Tom fears he may kill someone if the family has to go to another Hooverville.
23. Page 357: Jule Vitela asks Tom if he has been in a strike.
24. Page 358: Horses worth more than men.
25. Page 358: Winfield has hit another boy for calling him an Okie.
26. Page 359: Why do the nice toilets make Uncle John feel sinful.
27. Page 360: The battery has run down, so the car has to be cranked.
28. Page 361: Tom continues to goad Al.
29. Page 361: Tom knows Al has been having sex.
30. Page 362: Ma says they have to have a house.
31. Page 363: Ma says she is losing her spunk.
32. Page 363: Nail in the tire
33. Page 364: Why does the man driving the roadster and offering peach-picking jobs have a large gold ring and a gold football on a chain across his chest?
34. Page 365: Is it in the Joad's best interest for Tom to reveal that there are many men looking for jobs at the government camp?
35. Page 365: Al runs over a gopher snake.
36. Page 366: Why does Steinbeck relate the Happy Hooligan story?
37. Page 367: Discussion of suicide
38. Page 367; Ma brings up Purty Boy Floyd again.
39. Page 368: Police escort Joads and five other cars to the peach camp.
40. Page 369: The pay is five cents per box of unbruised peaches.
41. Page 370: The company store give credit.
42. Page 371: How do the holes in the buckets keep people from stealing?
43. Page 371: Al's outburst
44. Page 371: Pa's response to Al's outburst
45. Page 371: Tom intervenes.
46. Page 371: Joads peaches rejected as bruised.
47. Page 372: Rose of Sharon faints.
48. Page 372: The Joads receive one Dollar for shopping at the company store.
49. Page 373: Pa says Ruthie and Winfield are "wild as rabbits."
50. Page 373: Ruthie and Winfield reject the idea of going to school
51. Page 373-374: Ma's experience at the company store. Prices high, no guarantees
52. Page 375. The storekeeper defends his work.
53. Page 376: How is it that only the poor can help the poor?
54. Page 376: Tom decides to walk out to the road to find out what all the fuss was.
55. Page 377: Tom hints that Al is looking for girls again.
56. Page 377: The camp is not as well-equipped as the government camp.
57. Page 378: The camp guards say there will be no peace until the government camps are destroyed.

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