Oh Lennie!
Literary Terms
Vocabulary
Who is that?
This and That
100
The dream of George and Lennie
What is to have their own ranch?
100
The historical period in which Of Mice and Men is set.
What is The Great Depression?
100
This means gloomy or sad
What is morose?
100
The author of the Novella "Of Mice and Men"
Who is John Steinbeck?
100
This is the name of the town from which George and Lennie are fleeing.
What is Weed?
200
George believes these two people will cause trouble for George and Lennie
Who are Curley and Curley's wife?
200
The author is telling the reader about the character
What is direct characterization?
200
A house of prostitution
What is a cat house?
200
These are the full names of the two main characters.
What are George Milton and Lennie Small?
200
The reason Curley is arrogant and looking to fight other men.
What is he is jealous of bigger and/or taller men?
300
What is one thing that George does not tell the boss about Lennie?
What is that Lennie is mentally disabled?
300
A theme in the novela Of Mice and Men
What is Loneliness?
300
The fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work
What is a theme?
300
The thing that makes Lennie the most happy when dreaming about the ranch he and George will have
What is he will get to tend the rabbits?
300
These two characters get into a fist fight
Who are Lennie and Curley?
400
This is why George and Lennie arrived late for their job
What the bus George and Lennie were on would not go to the ranch and they had to walk part of the way?
400
Indirect characterization
What is the author shows the reader what the character is like through what he or she says or does, or by what other characters say about him/her?
400
A bundle or package
What is a bindle?
400
This person wears a vaseline-filled glove to keep his hand soft for his wife
Who is Curley?
400
This is the reason Crooks got his name
What is he has a crooked back?
500
George tells Lennie this when he drops down next to the pool of water at the beginning of the story
What is he tells him not to drink to much water to avoid getting sick?
500
When George gets angry about Lennie petting a woman's dress, it is an example of this literary term
What is foreshadowing?
500
Mean tempered and ready to fight
What is pugnacious?
500
She cared for Lennie before george
Who is Aunt Clara?
500
The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their original meaning
What is irony?
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