THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Steinbeck did not invent the term “Okies, ” nor did his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath present their story for the first time. The term was loosely applied to the flood of folks coming from the south-central region, left with little means by the Great Depression, the drought, and the dust storms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Remember the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, in which John Steinbeck wrote of the plight of the “Okies, ” who were forced off their lands in Oklahoma during the Great Depression and headed west to California?
Detailed explanation-3: -The Grapes of Wrath won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and was made into a notable film in 1940. The novel is about the migration of a dispossessed family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California and describes their subsequent exploitation by a ruthless system of agricultural economics.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Grapes of Wrath is considered to be a fictional novel as opposed to a historical novel.