The Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Presidential
Figurative Language
Winter 1934
100
The year the Great Depression started.
What is 1929?
100
Two causes of the Dust Bowl.
What are bad farming practices and drought?
100
President of the U.S. in 1929 when the Stock Market crashed.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100

"The wind roared like fire" A.)Idiom B.)Simile C.)Alliteration

What is a Simile

100
The place the narrator was born.
What is the kitchen floor?
200
This crashed in 1929 plummeting the economy into the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market?
200
The name given to many people who jumped on trains to search for work in other areas.
What are hobos?
200
The name of camps of homeless and unemployed people.
What is Hooverville?
200

The life and health of the family compared to apples. a)Symbolism b)Metaphor c)Simile

a)Symbolism

200
The name of the narrator.
What is Billie Jo?
300
The approximate number of people who became unemployed during the Depression.
What is 13-15 million?
300
The states mostly affected by the Dust Bowl (name 3).
What are Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, and Nebraska?
300
The president elected in 1932.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300

The piano representing Billie Jo's escape. a)Metaphor b)Symbolism c)Simile

b)Symbolism

300
The type of musical instrument the narrator plays.
What is a piano?
400
The type of kitchens that many people went to because they could not afford to feed themselves.
What are soup kitchens?
400
The worst of the black blizzards was known as this.
What is Black Sunday?
400
The political party that FDR belonged to.
What is Democrat?
400
Dust representing the never ending obstruction to a good life. a)Symbolism b)Simile c)Metaphor

a)Symbolism

400
The type of animal that Mr. Noble and Mr. Romney have bet each can kill the most of.
What is a rabbit?
500
The name of the world event that helped pull the U.S. out of the Depression.
What is WWII?
500
The state that many people migrated to in order to find jobs.
What is California?
500
The name given to the programs that helped the U.S. recover from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
What is the New Deal?
500

"Bringing a red dust like prairie fire" A.)Simile B.)Alliteration C.)Idiom

What is a Simile

500
The name of the boy that the narrator has a crush on.
Who is Mad Dog Craddock?
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