Vocabulary
Name this small bundle of items rolled up in a blanket.
What is a bindle?
This character was described as a tart and as jail bait.
The decade that this story is set in.
What is the 1930s?
From chapter one, meaning to be in a lot of trouble.
What is "in hot water"?
One being big and dumb and the other short and smart, these two cartoon mice are an allusion to George and Lennie.
Who are Pinky and the Brain?
The job of caretaker or handyman on the farm. In the novel, it was Candy who held this position.
What is a swamper?
Lennie didn't like it because it wasn't soft.
What is a rubber mouse.
The character who is at the bottom of the power totem on the ranch.
Who is Crooks?
George said that he and Lennie lost their jobs, or were this.
What is "canned"?
The relationship between George and Lennie most resembles this relationship between two family members.
Who are father and son?
What is the verb meaning to be comforted in a time of distress or grief.
What is consoled?
The main reason Crook's experiences loneliness on the farm and is the only man forced to live in a separate room all alone.
What is because he is African American?
When a mob kills someone, usually by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
What is lynching?
Idiom from the novel which means to have puppies.
What is to "throw a litter"?
The animals that met this fate include both mice and a dog.
What is death?
In chapter six of the novel, Lennie imagines having a conversation with a rabbit and he speaks to it in this way, meaning with hostility or aggression.
What is belligerently?
This young man is always wanting to fight because he is insecure and jealous.
Who is Curley?
People who moved to California during the Great Depression to find employment. They were transient and rarely settled down.
Who are migrant workers?
Lennie and George dreamed of saving up some money, or to do this.
What is to "roll up a stake"?
She is a shrewish lady who criticizes Lennie in the last chapter.
Who is Lennie's Aunt Clara?
When the author tells us that Lennie and George had to leave Weeds in a hurry, this technique is used.
What is foreshadowing?
George knows it is his duty to do this himself, otherwise the other men will do it and more people will be in danger.
What is to kill Lennie?
John Steinbeck's most famous novel, it was written in 1939.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
What is a "booby hatch"?
Who is Carlson?