Of Mice And Men - Conext ( Brief ) Flashcards
1
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Robbie burns
A
Title of novella is based on the line of the Scottish poem “To a Mouse”
2
Q
The Great Depression
A
Serious world-wide poverty throughout the 1930’s with a lack of social welfare.
3
Q
Great dust bowl
A
Severe dust wind storms that hugely damaged farmland in both America and Canada causing huge draught and inability to grow crops
4
Q
The American dream
A
the concept that positive outcomes will be promised to those who work hard.
5
Q
Jim Crow Laws
A
laws in some parts of America where black people were segregated from white people.
