Characters of Of Mice and Men
This character likes to touch soft things and has an obsession with rabbits
Who is Lennie Small
This was the name of the movement to attempt to get women the right to vote
What is Suffrage
This character said "I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you."
Who is Lennie
This town is the town that George and Lennie escaped from
What is Weed
What book does Crooks have a "mauled" copy of
What is the California Municipal Code
This character shoots Candy's dog because he doesn't want to smell it in the bunkhouse anymore
What is Carlson
This is the name of the people like George and Lennie who had to leave their homes and travel to find work on ranches or plantations.
What are migrant farmers.
This character said "I coulda been in the movies and had nice clothes."
Who is Curley's Wife
This soft material is what Lennie's aunt Clara gave to him that he lost
What is Velvet
What type of gun does George take from under Carlson's mattress?
What is a Luger
Took care of Lennie as a child
What is Aunt Clara
This is the social rule that ordered people of color to separate themselves away from white society.
What is segregation
This character said "But you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him."
Who is George
This plant is what Lennie wants to feed the rabbits
What is alfalfa
This is what Lennie hallucinates and speaks to after he runs away to the clearing.
What is a giant rabbit (or Aunt Clara)
This dog is owned by Slim and has puppies that Lennie loves to play with
Who is Lulu
This person served as president for the first few years of the Great Depression and was very unpopular with Americans (they named some of the "villages" of shacks where homeless people lived after him).
What is Herbert Hoover
This character said "I tell ya a guy gets to lonely an' he gets sick."
Who is Crooks
This food is what Lennie keeps talking about that he wants with beans
What is Ketchup
This is the thing that Curley's Wife says made her leave home.
Because her old lady stole her letters (or because she couldn't make anything of herself at home).
This character was excited that a past laborer on the ranch got his fan letter in a magazine
What is Whit
This is the name of a group of people who kill someone for an "offense" with no legal trial.
What a lynch mob
This character said "But you jus' tell an' try to get this guy canned and we'll tell ever'body, an' then will you get the laugh."
Who is Slim
George tells the boss that they were doing what in Weed
What is digging a cesspool
This is what Whit finds in a Cowboy magazine that he gets excited about.
What is a Letter from a former bunkmate.