WorksheetsOf Mice and Men Context Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 8mins
When did the Great Depression start?
1922
1929
1932
What caused the Great Depression?
Unemployment and a significant increase in world trade.
An increase in agricultural production and drought
Overvalued stocks, rising unemployment and decline in industrial trade.
What was the ‘Dust Bowl’?
The name for the many unemployed workers
Years of over-cultivation and drought in the Midwest
A name for the many families in poverty at the time.
What was the effect of the Great Depression on farmers?
Crop prices fell, farmers produced more to compensate, and some went bankrupt.
Many farmers began growing corn because it was cheaper and in order to pay their debts.
Farmers were prosperous during the Great Depression due to milk from dairy cattle and meat and eggs produced on their farms.
Why did migrant workers flock to California?
To visit the Dust Bowl.
The promise of better job opportunities and weather
a.A combination of a. and b.
Approximately how many people migrated to California during the 1930s?
25%
A couple of thousand
2.5 million
What made racism ‘burst onto the national consciousness’?
Millions of black families migrating North altered the racial balance in cities and towns, leading to systematic discrimination.
President Woodrow ordered segregation of whites and blacks during the war, and often black soldiers were poorly trained and equipped.
An increase in lynchings and racially-motivated attacks
What was the result of racism in the 1920s?
A mass migration of blacks to the north
Racially-motivated violent attacks such as lynchings
The Great Depression was caused by increasing racial discrimination.
What did Steinbeck initially try to study?
Medicine
English
Dissecting corpses
What sorts of issues did Steinbeck face during his life?
His parents went through a divorce
Health problems
Poverty and homelessness
Why was Steinbeck ‘mad at the world’?
He witnessed a colleague fall to his death
He experienced life as a migrant worker on the farms in California.
He identified with impoverished workers
Why did the FBI start investigating Steinbeck?
They did not support his raw and realistic portrayal of America in the 1930s.
He was severely mentally-ill and posed a risk to himself and others
He was violent towards his wife and children
