Characters
This character is a small and smart migrant worker who dreams of owning his own land.
Who is George Milton?
The name of the state where the story takes place.
What is California?
This is what George and Lennie do for a living.
What is migrant workers?
The animal that Lennie killed at the beginning of Chapter 5.
What is a dog?
This character is described as a "tramp," "tart," "jail bait," and "loo loo".
Who is Curley's wife?
This character is the "prince of the ranch" and is a well-respected jerkline skinner.
Who is Slim?
The name of the town to which George and Lennie are traveling.
What is Soledad?
The reason why George and Lennie were chased out of the previous town.
What is Lennie scared a women when he tried to feel her dress?
The names of the characters who come to Crooks' room in Chapter 4.
This character is the son of the boss, he's a fighter and was recently married.
Who is Curley?
This character is the stable buck and lives in separate living quarters.
Who is Crooks?
The name of the town from which George and Lennie came.
What is Weed?
The reason why Curley cannot be fired from the ranch.
What is his father is the boss?
What similarities between Lennie's actions in Chapter 1 and 6 reveal.
What is that Lennie has not changed at all?
This character is a large migrant worker with a mental disability.
Who is Lennie?
This character is a big-stomached ranch hand and he is the one who shoots Candy's dog.
Who is Carlson?
A historical event which caused Americans to lose their jobs and money, Of Mice and Men is set during this historical event.
What is the Great Depression?
The reason Curley does not like Lennie.
What is Curley does not like big guys?
What the men's reactions to Curley's wife dying reveal.
What is they do not care about her and she is viewed as an annoyance rather than a person?
This character is the old swamper and he is missing his right hand.
Who is Candy?
This character is a short, stocky man who wears high-heeled boots and he dislikes George.
Who is the Boss?
This historical event was named after the dry dusty land in the mid-west which made farming impossible and caused people to travel to California for work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The story Slim comes up with to prevent Lennie for getting fired for breaking Curley's hand.
What is Curley's hand got caught in a machine?
What Carlson and Curley's inability to understand why George was upset at the end of the novel reveal.
What is they cannot comprehend or understand the depth of a strong male friendship?
This character is a young ranch hand who plays a card game with George.
Who is Whit?