Of Mice and Men
An old man who is missing a hand.
Who is Candy?
Extreme scarcity of food.
What is Famine?
The share of ownership in a corporation.
What is Stock?
The Maine grown crop that ranks number one in terms of economic value for our state.
What are potatoes?
The first humans developed on this continent.
What is Africa?
George and Lennie's American Dream.
What is to own a little place with some...rabbits, a stove, etc.?
Nickname for midwestern migrant workers who moved West looking for work.
Who were Okies?
Money paid regularly at a particular rate for the use of money lent.
What is interest?
The reason proper sleep, nutrition, and hydration so important for teens.
What is brain development?
This natural disaster in a European country in the mid 1800s caused a lot of its inhabitants to immigrate to the US.
What is the Potato Famine?
He experiences "ableism" throughout the story because of his cognitive abilities.
Who is Lennie?
Prolonged period with abnormally low rainfall.
What is a drought?
The relationship between the quantity of an item and the amount of people who want it that determines the price of the item.
What is supply and demand?
The gender that requires more iron in their diet.
Who are women?
Immigrants from China were instrumental in building this.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Curly wears a glove full of this to keep his hand soft.
What is Vasoline?
State most migrant workers moved to during the Dust Bowl, looking for work.
What is California?
The U.S.’s central banking system, responsible for money supply & interest rates.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
This micro-nutrient is plentiful in potatoes as well as bananas and avocados.
What is potassium?
Christmas trees came to the United States from this country.
What is Germany?
Lennie's rather ironic last name.
What is Small?
The shift from using animals for labor to tractors and machines.
What is mechanization?
Tax to be paid on a particular category of imports or exports.
What is a Tariff?
The vitamin we get from the sun.
What is vitamin D?
The holiday Halloween comes to American culture from this country.
What is Ireland?