Symbols
Themes
Characters
Figurative Language
Quiz
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The American Dream
What does George and Lennie's farm symbolize?
100
George and Lennie go everywhere together and they stand by each other. George takes care of Lennie and prevents him from some troubles.
What is friendship?
100
A quick-witted man who is an guardian and a best friend.
Who is George Milton?
100
On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a skittering if he runs among them.
What is personification?
100
Weed.
Where did the incident happen?
200
A symbol of the fate awaiting anyone who has outlived his or her purpose.
What is Candy's dog?
200
Crooks is an old black man who lives and sleeps by himself with no contact besides orders.
What is isolation?
200
Lennie Small remains exactly as the reader encounters him.
Which character does not change all through the story?
200
Through the open door came the thuds and occasional clangs of a horseshoe game...
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The 1930s.
What decade is the book set?
300
This character is someone who bring sins and death to a male-centered society.
How is Curley's wife symbolic?
300
George overcomes the evil in his society by making sacrifices for Lennie.
What is struggle?
300
He depicts women as troublemakers who bring ruin on men and drive them crazy.For example, Curley's wife.
What does Steinbeck think of women based on the novel?
300
Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers...
What is personification?
300
To be a movie star.
What is Curley's wife's dream?
400
It is a symbol of race.
What is symbolic about Crooks room?
400
Lennie is mentally ill, George can't fight for his dream, and Curley resents being a small man.
What is weakness?
400
Curley wears high-heeled boots.
What does Curley wear to be different form the other men?
400
"You keep me in hot water all the time."
What is idiom?
400
Because he says a white man shouldn’t be allowed in his room since he is not allowed in the white man’s bunkhouse.
Why doesn't Crooks allow Lennie to enter his room?
500
A symbol of the lack of freedom.
What is the horse rattling chains?
500
It captures the feeling of rural America during the Great Depression, the stock market crash and many more.
What are the visions of America?
500
Candy is the "old swamper".This shows the amount of respect he has from the other characters.
What is the attitude?
500
Two characters always mention tending the rabbits and living off the fatta of the land.
What is repetition?
500
Unknown
What is the name of Curley's wife?
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