Where Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck traveled in 1940.
What is the Gulf of California?
100
The time in which the midwest and south of the United States were caught in a terrible drought, causing all the crops to dry up, throwing the nation into the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
This novella tells the story of two traveling partners struggling to find work in the time of the Dust Bowl/Great Depression.
What is Of Mice and Men?
100
The year he wrote his first novel: Pastures of Heaven.
What is 1932?
100
Year that Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize.
What is 1962?
200
Year when Ed Ricketts died, causing Steinbeck's quality of work to plummet
What is 1948?
200
Another one of Steinbeck's better-known pieces, centered around the Depression and the Dust Bowl.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
200
This book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
200
Name two of Steinbeck's "odd jobs."
What is a tour guide, caretaker, fish marker, etc.
200
The number of books John Steinbeck wrote.
What is 27 books?
300
What Ed Ricketts studied and sold on his voyages with Steinbeck.
What is Biological Specimens?
300
Name of the president in office while the Dust Bowl/Depression era was in effect.