Back
Question | Answer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Of Mice and Men was first published in what year? | 1937 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What is the name of the town from which George and Lennie are fleeing when the story opens? | Weed | When Lennie drops down next to the pool of water as the story opens, what is George’s advice to him? | Not to drink too much that he gets sick | What excites Lennie most about his dream life with George? | He'll get to farm and tend rabbits | Why is Candy unable to imagine getting rid of his old dog? | He's had it since it was a puppy | Why does Curley wear a Vaseline-filled glove on one hand? | To keep it sof for his wife | Why does Carlson insist on shooting Candy’s dog? | He believes it's too old and decrepit to be of any use | Whit enters the bunkhouse with a magazine featuring a man he used to work with. Why is the man in the magazine? | He wrote a letter to the editor saying how much he liked the magazine | What is Old Susy’s place? | A flophouse | Who discovers Curley’s dead wife? | Candy | What does Curley wear to set himself apart from the other men? | High heeled cowboy boots | Why doesn’t Crooks allow Lennie to enter his room at first? | Because he isn't allowed in the white men's bunkhouse, so he won't let them into his room | Who cared for Lennie before George? | Lennie's Aunt Clara | Of Mice and Men is set in which decade? | 1930s | What does Curley’s wife offer to let Lennie touch? | Her hair | To whom does Candy look for advice before allowing Carlson to shoot his dog? | Slim | Whom do Lennie and George agree to let live on their farm? | Candy | Why do many critics find fault with Of Mice and Men? | They think it's too sentimental / Too much "bad language" / Inaccurate | How does Steinbeck foreshadow the death of Curley’s wife? | Opens the chapter with Lennie and the dead puppy / has Lennie frequently killing or harming things he likes | How did Crooks get his name? | He was kicked by a horse | Before George meets Lennie in the woods in the final scene, whose gun does he take? | Carlson's | What does George say to Lennie before shooting him? | He tells him to look away, and imagine their farm and the rabbits | Who is the only man to understand the bond between Lennie and George? | Slim | After killing Curley’s wife, who does Lennie imagine appears to chastise his behaviour? | Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit | Curley’s wife wonders what she would be if she had followed her dreams and become what? | A Hollywood actress |
Back
Did you know you can highlight text to take a note? x