On which stretch of Tom's journey does he meet Jim Casy?

• A. On the roadside
• B. In a field
• C. In a town square
• D. At a train station

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is where Tom’s journey truly begins to take shape through a chance encounter with Jim Casy. After Tom is released from prison, he’s traveling along the highway, hitching rides as he heads back toward his family. It’s along this roadside that he runs into Casy, a former preacher who has been wandering and sharing ideas with travelers. That roadside meeting starts their partnership and sets the tone for their travels together, making the road the correct setting.

The other locations don’t fit because they don’t match the moment of Tom’s return journey as he’s moving along the road and encounters Casy for the first time. A field, a town square, or a train station are not where this pivotal reunion occurs in the narrative.