Grapes of Wrath Practice Test

Nicknames in literature often reflect how characters speak and where they come from. In the Wilson family, Sarah is rendered as Sairy, a dialectal diminutive that mirrors a rural, informal pronunciation. This spelling—Sairy—was commonly used in older American writing to signal folksy speech, making it the natural nickname for Sarah in that context. While the formal name is Sarah, and other spellings like Sary or Sari exist in different contexts, the text uses Sairy to capture the characters’ regional voice.