During the economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s,

1. What did people do to relieve the discouragement and despair?

2. How did they relieve stress?

3. What did they do for recreation? [As an interesting point of research, consider looking into the history of the game Monopoly ®.]

4. What comfort did the Bible offer to Christians in the Depression?

5. Lastly, comment on the disparity between the "simpler pleasures" that people found during the early 1930s and our society's dependence on material goods, wealth, and electronic forms of entertainment today.