This phrase means you have died and are leaving in a coffin.
What is "they'll take you outta here in a box"?
100
This word means to be detached.
What is aloof?
100
This is what Crooks was rubbing into his sore back.
Who is liniment?
100
What Candy meant when he said he had the plans for their farm "doped out"
What is "figured out"?
100
The phrase "two shots of corn" means this.
What is "two shots of whiskey"?
200
A slang term for a mental institution.
What is the booby hatch?
200
This word means cruelly.
What is brutally?
200
The reason that Lennie was in the barn at the beginning of the chapter.
What is "to see his pup"?
200
Candy told Curley's wife that they didn't care if they got canned. The slang word "canned" means this.
What is fired from a job?
200
Name 3 things that are in Crook's room
What are "a straw filled bunk, work bench, leather working tools, his glasses, books, apple box over his bunk, medicine bottles, harnesses, leather strips, single barrel shotgun, shoes, alarm clock" ?
300
What Curley's wife meant when she said "baloney"
What is a "Nonsense." or "That's not true." ?
300
This word means depressed.
What is crestfallen?
300
Crooks tells Lennie he isn't allowed in the bunkhouse for this reason.
What is "Because I am black"?
300
What Curley's wife meant when she said "A guy told me he could put me in pitchers."
What is "give her a job as an actress in the movies"?
300
This is what George told Lennie to do while he was in town.
What is "stay on the farm and don't get in no trouble"?
400
This phrase "took a powder" means this.
What is "left"?
400
This word means evaluated.
What is appraised?
400
This the reason Candy didn't go into town with the rest of the men.
What is "Candy is just sitting in the bunkhouse sharpening his pencil and figuring bout the rabbits"?
400
Curley's wife threatens to do this to Crooks if he tells the boss to forbid her from visiting the barn. Give the phrase and what it means.
What is "I could get you strung up in a tree"?
What is "to be hanged"?
400
These are the 4 people who show up in Crook's room during Chapter 4.
Who are "Lennie, Candy, Curley's wife, and George"?
500
This is a slang term for the migrant workers who move from farm to farm to work and carry all of their belongings with them in a bindle.
What is "bindle stiff" or "bindle bum"?
500
This word means unnerving.
What is disarming?
500
This is what Crooks "s'poses" about George when he is talking to Lennie. This made Lennie angry.
What is "s'pose he gets hurt or killed and can't come back"?
500
Candy tells Curley's wife to go do this. It was a popular amusement for children during the 1930's. This is Candy's way of calling her young and immature.
What is "go roll your hoop"?
500
***DAILY DOUBLE***
2 PARTS:
1) Where does Crooks say that he grew up when he is describing his childhood?
2) Describe what Crook's childhood was like by giving 3 details that he told Lennie while they were talking in his room.
1) What is California or on his father's farm?
2) On a chicken ranch that was about 10 acres
- with his two brothers who were always with him
- played with the white children that lived nearby
- no colored families for miles
- had an alfalfa patch and a strawberry patch