Of Mice And Men: Steinbeck, Great Depression, Migrant Workers Question Preview (ID: 39255)


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Who wrote Of Mice and Men?
a) John Steinbeck
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Richard Connell
d) Liam O'Flaherty

What was the first day of the Great Depression called?
a) Bloody Sunday
b) Black Tuesday
c) Black Friday
d) Manic Monday

When did the stock market crash?
a) October 15, 1932
b) December 7, 1941
c) October 29, 1929
d) November 22, 1963

What was FDR's plan to help get the United States out of the Great Depression?
a) Mo' Money, Mo' Problems
b) The Best Deal
c) The Hooverville Hiatus
d) The New Deal

What was another name for the shantytowns where migrants lived?
a) Hoovervilles
b) ghettos
c) fireside chats
d) Downtown Depression

The ________ was the worst economic period in the history of the United States.
a) The Great Repression
b) The Great Depression
c) The Great Mouse Detective
d) The Great Recession

Great Plain droughts led to winds carrying topsoil and burying homes in the _______.
a) Super Bowl
b) Midwestern Desert
c) Dust Bowl
d) Great Drought

What college did John Steinbeck attend for 6 years but not graduate from?
a) Harvard
b) Yale
c) Princeton
d) Stanford

Where did John Steinbeck live much of his life?
a) Salinas, CA
b) San Francisco, CA
c) New York City, NY
d) Washington, D.C.

How many times did John Steinbeck marry?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

Which of the following was Steinbeck's first major writing success?
a) Of Mice and Men
b) The Grapes of Wrath
c) Cup of Gold
d) Tortilla Flat

Who was blamed for The Great Depression?
a) FDR
b) JFK
c) Herbert Hoover
d) Lyndon B. Johnson

Workers who moved from place to place looking for a job during the Great Depression were called...
a) migrant workers
b) beggars
c) laborers
d) cool dudes

Olive, John's mother, worked as a ____________.
a) writer
b) teacher
c) doctor
d) nurse

Citizens lost their faith in which corporation/institution during the Great Depression?
a) schools
b) churches
c) farms
d) banks

John Steinbeck got the title for Of Mice and Men from which poem?
a) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
b) The Great Mouse Detective
c) To a Mouse
d) Annabel Lee

What event helped get the United States out of the Great Depression?
a) WWII
b) Civil War
c) Revolutionary War
d) Dust Bowl

How long did Steinbeck attend college?
a) 4 years
b) 2 years
c) 6 years
d) He never went.

For which president did Steinbeck write speeches?
a) Lyndon B. Johnson
b) John F. Kennedy
c) Herbert Hoover
d) Franklin D. Roosevelt

On what day did Steinbeck die?
a) December 20, 1968
b) October 29, 1929
c) February 27, 1902
d) April 23, 1564

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