This would describe the type of comment someone could make that would make you feel bad.
What is derogatory?
100
This is Candy's physical disability.
What is having only one hand?
100
This is what George tells Lennie to do if he gets into trouble.
What is go to the brush where they camped out before they got to the ranch?
100
This is the defininition of direct characterization.
What is when the narrator reveals a character by stating what this character is like.
100
This is the time period during which the story takes place.
What is the Great Depression or the 1930's?
200
This vocabulary word describes how George feels at the end of the story.
What is anguished?
200
This is what Curley's wife dreams of becoming.
What is an actress?
200
This is what Lennie wants his job to be if he and George ever get their own farm.
What is taking care of the rabbits?
200
This is an example of indirect characterization that shows that Lennie is mentally disabled.
There are a variety of possible answers to this question.
200
This is the name of the author of Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
300
This vocabulary word describes the look that Curley's Wife gives Lennie when Lennie says that Curley got his hand caught in a machine.
What is skeptically?
300
This is why, at first, Crooks doesn't let Lennie come into his room.
What is that Crooks is not allowed in the bunkhouse because he is black?
300
This is why Curley starts the fight with Lennie.
What is the fact that he says Lennie is laughing at him?
300
This is an event in the story that demonstrates the following theme:
People who often feel like they are powerless sometimes use what power they do have to hurt others.
There are several possible answers to this question.
300
This is who Candy blames for the death of their dream.
Who is Curley's Wife?
400
This is the vocabulary word that may describe life on the ranch if all you do is work in the fields every day and sit around the bunkhouse playing cards every night.
What is monotonous?
400
This is the reason that people such as Crooks and Curley's Wife talk to Lennie.
There are different answers to this question.
400
This is why Curley's wife threatens to have Crooks lynched.
What is that she doesn't like the fact that Crooks and Candy aren't showing her respect?
400
This is the reason that George killing Lennie can be viewed as an example of situational irony.
What is the fact that George is Lennie's best friend and has always taken care of him, yet he must murder him.
400
This is the name of the town and state in which the story takes place.
What is Soledad, California?
500
This is what Lennie felt when George took his mouse away, since Lennie didn't think it was fair.
What is indignation?
500
This is the character how says the following line at the end of the novel:
"Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"
Who is Carlson?
500
This is why George kills Lennie.
What is saving him from the painful death Curley has in store for him?
500
This is what happens at resolution of the novel.
What is George kills Lennie?
500
These are three similarities between the death of Candy's dog and Lennie's death.
What are they are both mercy killings, they are done with the same gun, and they are done in the same way?