1. Do you see any parallels between the Dust Bowl and Hurricane Katrina?

2. Is there any relevance to learning about the Dust Bowl for our time?

3. What kind of peril did the Dust Bowlers face?

4. What caused the Dust Bowl?

5. Do you think the people in this book did strange things? If so, Why?

6. Did you find anything surprising about the facts introduced in this book?

7. How has reading the book changed your opinion of the Dust Bowl?

8. Has this book increased your interest about this time period?

9. Does the author present information in a way that is interesting and , insightful, and
if so, how does he achieve this?

10. What do you think the author Timothy Egan meant when he called the Dust Bowl “the great untold story of the Greatest Generation”?