Plot
Characters
Literary Elements & Setting
Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Themes
100
George tells slim that Lennie was accused of this, which is the reason they had to leave Weed.
What is rape?
100
This person cared for Lennie before George did.
Who is Aunt Clara?
100
This is the place that Lennie and George leave in the beginning of the novel.
What is Weed?
100
True or False--"From" is a preposition?
What is True?
100
Crooks expresses this theme when he describes his life at the ranch where he spends most of his time in his room.
What is loneliness?
200
Lennie kills this animal, which foreshadows his later killing.
What is a mouse?
200
This character wears a glove of vaseline on his hand and high-heeled boots.
Who is Curley?
200
Lennie's size and his last name are an example of this type of literary element.
What is irony?
200
We drove around the parking lot.
What is around?
200
This theme is evident through the relationship between George and Lennie, but also between George and Slim.
What is friendship?
300
After Lennie crushes Curley's hand, the men lie and say it was crushed by this.
What is a machine?
300
This character is known for his exceptional horse shoe playing skills and also tells Lennie that George may never return.
Who is Crooks?
300
This is where George tells Lennie to go if he ever gets in trouble.
What is the brush?
300
Find all of the prepositions: She placed a photograph of Mount Rushmore next to her clay model.
What is of, next, and to ?
300
Lennie describes his own version of this theme when he dreams about the ranch and having a place of his own.
What is the American Dream?
400
Carlson thinks that Lennie took this from him when it was George who used this to kill Lennie.
What is a luger?
400
This character hopes to join in George and Lennie's dream.
Who is Candy?
400
Candy's dog's death serves as this type of literary element to Lennie's death.
What is foreshadowing?
400
Identify the prepositional phrase: The tall building with the red roof is our new library.
What is with the red roof?
400
George and Carlson both enact this theme through the act of killing.
What is mercy?
500
This persons murder is the climax of the story.
Who is Curley's wife?
500
This character is the only one who is never given an actual name in the entire novella.
Who is Curley's wife?
500
This is the river described in the novella in the beginning pages and in the ending pages.
What is the Salinas River?
500
Identify the prepositional phrase and identify how the phrase is functioning e.g., adjective or adverb: The trees were bent nearly double in the wind.
What is "nearly double" and "in the wind"?
500
George embodies this theme by taking care of Lennie.
What is self-sacrifice?
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