Vocab

Question 1

Isolation

Answer 1

Being alone / apart
from others.

Question 2

Lonliness

Answer 2

Sadness because one has no friends or company.

Question 3

Racism

Answer 3

Racism is the belief that people of some races are inferior to others, and the behaviour which is the result of this belief.

Question 4

Segregation

Answer 4

The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

Question 5

Nomadic

Answer 5

A person who moves from one place to another in order to find work or better living conditions.

Question 6

Cyclical

Answer 6

Occurring in cycles; recurrent.

Question 7

Hierarchy

Answer 7

A system in which members of a society are ranked according to status or authority.

Question 8

Marginalisation

Answer 8

To marginalize a group of people means to make them feel isolated and unimportant.

Question 9

American Dream

Answer 9

The ideal by which any American, can reach their highest aspirations and goals.

Question 10

The Great Depression

Answer 10

A long and severe recession in an economy or market.

Question 11

The Dust Bowl

Answer 11

A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of American ranches in the 1930s.