Of Mice and Men Word Scramble

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Of Mice and Men

Regents Review

Question	Answer
John Steinbeck	Author of Of Mice and Men
George Milton	Short, quick, smart, responsible
Lennie Small	Big, bear-like, strong, impulsive, mentally challenged.
Candy	Old, slow moving, scraggly
Crooks	Intelligent, bent spine
Curley	Pugnacious, bully
Curley's Wife	Pretty, young, flirtatious
Slim	Self confident, authoritative
Carlson	Big, unfeeling,
Candy's dog	Old, smelly, scraggly
Misfits	People who do not fit into the world they live in.
Foreshadows George killing Lennie.	Candy's dog is killed just because it has become a problem to the others.
Ripples in the water	symbol of the far-reaching effects of one thing
George and Lennie's dream	They want to buy a place of their own where Lennie can raise rabbits.
Loneliness and isolation	Two themes from the novel
Salinas, California in the 1930's	Setting of the novel
Motif	The recurrance of Lennie touching and hurting or killing soft creatures: mice, girl in red dress, puppy, Curley's wife
Imagery	Description of the wooded area by the lake in the first and last part of the novel
George playing solitaire	Symbol of his isolation because of Lennie.
Lennie "...dabbled his big paw..."	Diction used by the author to characterize Lennie as being like an animal.

Created by: macpavone on 2011-06-07