22. Document Project 22: The Depression in Rural America

Quiz for Document 22.5 Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary, 1934

Quiz for Document 22.5: Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary, 1934

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. After reading Ann Marie Low’s diary entry , what does it seem like she spent more time doing than any other activity?

Preparing food for her father and brothers

Cleaning

Picking crops with her family members

Doing dishes

2. What can you learn about the effects of the Dust Bowl from reading Ann Marie Low’s diary?

It only affected the Great Plains and Midwest region.

North Dakota was harder hit than anywhere else in the United States.

Its effect reached hundreds of miles across the United States.

Most famers in the Great Plains were unaffected.

3. What does Ann Marie Low’s diary reveal about gender roles during this era?

Women’s roles were mostly domestic.

Women’s work was easy and quick.

Women worked outside the home a lot.

Women were the breadwinners for the family.

4. How did many farmers, including Ann Marie Low’s family, respond to the Dust Bowl?

Sell the farm and build a factory

Pack up and move out west

Make the best of the situation

Diversity into other businesses

Exploring American HistoriesPrinted Page 749