Plot
Characters
Literary Elements & Setting
Book Facts & The Author
Motifs
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
This man is the author of the novella Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
100
Crooks expresses this motif when he describes his life at the ranch where he spends most of his time in his room.
What is loneliness/isolation?
200
This event foreshadows Lennie's death at the end of the novel.
What is Carlson's killing of Candy's dog?
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
The decade in which OMAM is set.
What is the 1930s?
200
This motif 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
The book was published in this year (you can be within 2 years of the correct answer).
What is 1937? (1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 all accepted.)
300
Lennie describes his own version of this motif 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 gun?
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
This is another novel written by John Steinbeck.
What is The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, East of Eden, Red Pony, and Cannery Row?
400
George and Carlson both enact this motif through the act of killing.
What is mercy?
500
This is the climax of the story.
What is George's murder of Lennie?
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.
What is the Salinas River?
500
This is the poem from which the title of OMAM is taken.
What is "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns?
500
George embodies this motif by taking care of Lennie.
What is responsibility?
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