Background
The book takes place in this state.
What is California?
The names of the main characters (protagonists).
Who are George and Lennie?
This character is known as the most respected man on the ranch. Everyone listens to and values his thoughts on a variety of topics.
Who is Slim?
This character is very confrontational due to his height and self-consciousness with it.
Who is Curley?
This literary device is a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The book takes place during this time period, which is characterized by a sharp decline in the economy.
What is the Great Depression?
One of the protagonists is very interested in this animal, frequently worrying he won't be allowed to "tend" them if he is bad.
What are rabbits?
This is how Curley breaks his hand.
What is Lennie grabs it and crushes it?
One protagonist used to ___________ the other, but no longer does, as he explains to Slim
What is tease/be mean to?
This literary device is a comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
Another name for "traveling" workers. This describes many people in the agricultural industry who were displaced during the Dust Bowl.
What is migrant?
This heartbreaking moment is how the novel ends.
What is George shoots Lennie in the back of the head?
This is how Candy plans to contribute to the protagonists dream farm.
What is use his injury compensation money to finance the purchase of the land?
These traits are most notable about one of the protagonists, who suffers from a mental disability (name two).
What are:
- doesn't know his own strength (very strong)
- freezes in stressful situations
- likes soft things
This literary device is when an event hints at a future event in a work of literature.
What is foreshadowing?
The author of Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
What is Aunt Clara died?
This story that Curley's wife shares with "the big boy" makes her a more sympathetic character than her flirtatious behavior initially did.
What is she was held back from being a singer/actress by her mother and then married Curley?
This trait is the most notable about Curley's wife for the majority of the novel
What is she is flirtatious?
This is what happens to Curley's wife at the end of the novel.
What is Lennie kills her by accident when feeling her hair?
Due to the time period in which the novel was written and takes place, we see these types of discrimination affect some characters (name two).
What are racism, sexism, and ableism?
This is why the protagonists lost their last job.
What is Lennie held onto a woman's dress and was accused of rape/assault?
This character shot Candy's dog (it is also the name of an orchard in central Massachusetts!)
Who is Carlson?
This is the deeper reason that Candy fears putting down his dog.
What is he may be just like the dog, old and useless?
This is the dream of the protagonists, described as "living off the fat of the land"
What is to buy a farm and live self-sufficiently?