The Author
Who is the author of Of Mice and Men?
John Steinbeck
What was the Great Depression?
A worldwide economic downturn, it was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.
What is an antonym?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is the only fruit with outside seeds?
Strawberry
What year was Of Mice and Men published?
1937
What was the time span of the Great Depression?
It began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939.
What is a complex sentence?
A sentence containing an independent clause and a dependent clause.
Which country has won the most FIFA world cups?
Brazil
What did the author win a nobel prize for?
Literature
What was the initial cause of the Great Depression?
The 1929 stock market crash.
What is a sentence fragment?
An error where a dependent clause is punctuated as an independent clause.
Which soft drink once contained cocaine as one of its original ingredients?
Coca-cola
Where did the author grow up?
Salinas, California
What was the Dust Bowl?
A period of severe dust storms causing major damage to American prairie lands in the 1930s.
What are cohesive devices?
Words and expressions that show relationships between parts of text and ideas (example: but, or, so, because, therefore, whereasa).
Which well-known comic book series features four characters named after Italian Renaissance artists?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
What themes did the author commonly write about?
The struggle for survival, the corrupting influence of power and greed, the fragility of dreams, community and solidarity.
What caused the Dust Bowl?
A combination of drought and bad farming practices caused the storms.
What is the subject-verb agreement?
Subject-verb agreement means that a subject and its verb must be both singular or both plural (example: There are many reasons to disagree about politics.)
The unicorn is the national animal of which country?
Scotland