Plot
People/Places
and Things
Elements of Fiction
Isms
Characters
100
George shoots Lenny
What is climax?
100
Author of the novel Of Mice and Men
What is John Steinbeck?
100
One of the story's themes that is demonstrated by all the characters' desire for companionship
What is Loneliness?
100
Crooks isolation in the barn and their treatment of him
What is racism?
100
An old man with only one useful arm, he just wants to belong
What is Candy?
200
Curley takes an instant dislike to Lennie "the big guy."
What is Inciting Incident?
200
Setting of the story
What is Salinas, California
200
The historical event that contributed to the sense of powerlessness we see in the novel
What is the Depression?
200
A literary school that employs dialect and idioms to create a sense of specific time and place
What is Regionalism?
200
The obnoxious, aggressive boss's son
What is Curley?
300
2 or 3 days pass during which Lenny and George work on the ranch and meet the other men.
What is rising action?
300
The place they have just run from
What is Weed, California
300
The point of view in Of Mice and Men
What is 3rd person omniscient?
300
The men's treatment of Curley's wife
What is sexism?
300
Big and strong, slow and dangerous
What is Lennie?
400
Slim comforts George as they walk away.
What is denouement?
400
The poem the novel's title is taken from, that tells us "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
What is "To a Mouse"?
400
George, Lennie and eventually Candy are motivated by a desire for this.
What is their own home or place?
400
A literary school that attempts to tell things as they really are
What is Realism?
400
A leader of men, he determines who lives and dies
What is Slim?
500
Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife.
What is crisis?
500
The poet who wrote the poem the title is taken from
What is Robert "Bobby" Burns?
500
A major theme of the novel is that this is not achievable by the poor or disenfranchised.
What is the American Dream?
500
A literary school that suggests that man's life is controlled by outside forces like environment, fate and heredity
What is Naturalism?
500
Kills Candy's dog
What is Carlsen?
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