Question | Answer |
Lennie's Aunt's name | Clara |
The only black man on the ranch | Crooks |
Means to lie down or recline | Recumbent |
Lennie and George came from which town? | Weed |
George catches Lennie petting a dead what? | Mouse |
Lennie's main goal is to be able to tend what? | Rabbits |
Lennie is told to hide in the brush down by the | River |
Which character does Lennie get nervous talking to the most? | Curley's Wife |
George tells the Boss that Lennie is his | Cousin |
Curley always thinks that his wife is with who? | Slim |
Curley's Wife says that she can have Crooks_____________________ if he doesn't remember his place on the ranch. | Hanged |
What did Lennie do to the girl in Weed? | Pulled on her skirt and wouldn't let go |
Where does Lennie tell George he can go live if George doesn't want him around anymore? | In a cave in the mountains |
What made George stop teasing Lennie all of the time? | Lennie jumped in the Sacramento River |
Carlson want to kill... | Candy's dog |
What does Candy wish he had done himself? | Shoot his dog |
Candy has had his dog since... | it was a pup |
What do the guys on the ranch say Curley's Wife has? | The eye |
Which whorehouse do the guys like to go to? | Susy's |
How much will it cost the guys to get the farm that George found? | 600 |
What did Candy lose on the ranch? | His hand |
What does Candy hope they do to him when they fire him? | Shoot him |
What is George worried will happen if other guys find out that they're buying a farm? | They'll get fired |
What does Curley wear on his hand? | A glove full of vasaline |
What can Crooks do that surpirses everyone? | Read |
How does Crooks react to Lennie coming into his bunk? | He's angry at him |
Crooks isn't allowed where? | In the bunkhouse |
What is Lennie's job on the ranch? | Buck barley |
What is Candy's job on the ranch? | swamper |
Who is the only woman on the ranch? | Curley's Wife |
What does Lennie do to Curley's hand? | Crushed it |
Why does Curley start the fist fight with Lennie? | He thinks Lennie is laughing at him |
What is the last story that George tells Lennie before he shoots him? | Their American dream |
What is Lennie worried about after he crushes Curley's hand? | Tending the rabbits |
What does Curley's Wife call Lennie once she realizes that he is the one who crushed Lennie's hand? | Machine |
What does George usually do after he has yelled at Lennie? | Apoligizes |
What does Crooks say about Lennie's dream of getting the ranch? | It'll never happen |
What does Crooks tell Lennie George is going to do? | Never come back |
What was Curley's Wife's American dream? | To be an actress |
How does Curley's Wife feel about Curley? | She doesn't like him |
What does Slim give Lennie? | A puppy |
What does Lennie eventually do to his puppy? | Kills it |
Why does Lennie like to pet mice? | They're soft |
What does Curley's Wife tell Lennie to do in the barn? | Touch her hair |
What does Curley's Wife do once Lennie starts to mess up her hair? | Pulls away |
How does Lennie kill Curley's Wife? | Snaps her neck |
Who finds Curley's Wife? | Candy |
Where do the guys on the ranch plan to shoot Lennie? | In the gut |
What does Candy realize they're not going to be able to get once Lennie kills Curley's Wife? | The ranch |
Who actually took Carlson's Luger? | George |
Who do the guys think took Carlson's Luger? | Lennie |
What is the first thing that Lennie imagines talking to when he's by the river? | His Aunt Clara |
What is the second thing that Lennie imagines talking to when he's by the river? | A rabbit |
What does the rabbit Lennie is talking to at the end tell him George is going to do? | Beat him and leave him |
Where does George shoot Lennie? | Back of the head |
Which characters are confused by the end of the novel? | Carlson and Curley |
Which character understands why George killed Lennie? | Slim |
Why does George say he had to shoot Lennie? | Self defense |
Which word means to be arrogant? | Imperiously |
What wor means to always be ready to fight? | Pugnacious |
Which word means foreshadowing evil? | Ominously |
Which word means to be really interested in something? | Absorbedly |
Which word means to show suffering or sorrow? | Plaintively |
Which word means to calm down? | Mollified |
Which word means to make reduce someone's character? | Derogatory |
Which word means something that people make fun of you for? | Derision |
Which word means to be open to new ideas? | Receptive |
Which word means that something is so bad it deserves blame? | Reprehensible |
Which word means to be at a distance? | Aloof |
Which word means to twist in pain? | Writhed |
Which word means to not be happy? | Discontent |
Which word means to answer back with an attitude? | Retorted |
The theme of violence plays a part in the end when | George kills Lennie |
Loneliness is the cause of the end of the novel because... | Curley's Wife is lonley and that's why she talks to Lennie |
The farm with rabbits and "living off the fatta the lan" is George and Lennie's version of... | The American dream |
Along with giving Candy a job on the ranch for losing his hand, they also give him | Money |
All of the guys on the ranch think that George and Lennie are strange because they don't understand | The idea of friendship |
Crooks got a crooked back when | A horse kicked him in the spine |
The death of Lennie is similar to the death of | Candy's dog |
Candy's dog is Candy's... | Best friend |
The novel takes place in which state? | California |
What is the area that the novel takes place in called? | The Salinas Valley |