Of Mice and Men - Dates Flashcards
1
Q
When was the book published? (Roughly same date it was set in)
A
1937.
2
Q
When was the Wallstreet Crash?
A
1929.
3
Q
When was John Steinbeck born?
A
1902.
4
Q
When did the drought begin?
(Also, when did the Dust Bowl begin?)
A
1931.
By 1934, it had turned the Great Plains into a desert that came to be known as the Dust Bowl.
5
Q
When was Robert Burns’s poem “To a mouse” published?
A
1785.
6
Q
Following which event did a recession lead to the drop in the market price of farm crops?
A
World War I.
7
Q
What were the dates of WWI?
A
1914-1918.
