Mice & Men Context

Question 1

When was mice and men written ?

Answer 1

1937

Question 2

When was the law on compulsory sterilisation of of mentally disabled people
passed?

Answer 2

California in 1909

Question 3

What kind of people were considered mentally disabled

Answer 3

Those with IQ less than 70

Question 4

What would families do with mentally disabled kids?

Answer 4

Hide them away due to stigma

Question 5

What were the consequences of being mentally disabled ?

Answer 5

• harder to get work
• put in booby hatches
• euthanasia

Question 6

Describe attitudes to African Americans

Answer 6

• racially motivated violence + lynchings increased
• racial discrimination was legal
• Jim Crow laws + segregation
• KKK extremist group
• less pay

Question 7

Describe attitudes to women

Answer 7

• cook/clean/stay home etc
• care for husband/kids
• make clothes
• do not work
• property of husband

Question 8

When was Marital rape okay in California until?

Answer 8

1979

Question 9

When did women get the right to vote?

Answer 9

1920

Question 10

Describe attitudes to older workers

Answer 10

• lost savings
• discrimination
• pressure to keep working

Question 11

What were the effects of the Great Depression?

Answer 11

• poverty + unemployment

- lasted 10 yrs

Question 12

What was the dust bowl + effects?

Answer 12

Long drought and soil erosion in states like Oklahoma - workers headed to California

Question 13

How many farm workers migrated to California in search of work ?

Answer 13

1.3 million

Question 14

Employment rates in 1933

Answer 14

• 25%

- (50%) Africans