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In what state does Of Mice and Men take place?
California
What literary/rhetorical device does Steinbeck use throughout the beginning of each chapter?
Imagery
The item George and Lennie carry around
bindle
"But Lennie made an elaborate ________ of innocence. 'What mouse, George? I ain't got no mouse.'"
The men at the ranch use these kinds of remarks about the black person who works in the stables
derogatory
What device would typically use/have a PERISCOPE?
submarine
What does it mean to MOLLIFY someone?
Appease his/her anger or anxiety
This is how Lennie walks
Lumbered
This is what Lennie feels when George takes his mice
despair
A synonym for CONTORTED
Why would someone use LINIMENT?
For pain relief or first-aid
What event during the time of the Great Depression caused many people to go to the state in Of Mice and Men to find work?
The Dust Bowl
This describes the Grinch
Morose
Which word would best describe the boxer Muhammad Ali?
Pugnacious
"Thousands of THEM are crossing the borders in ancient rattling automobiles, destitute and hungry and homeless, ready to accept any pay so that they may eat and feed their children."
Who is being discussed in this quote from Steinbeck?
migrant workers
What year was Of Mice and Men published?
1937
The word DELIBERATELY is what part of speech?
adverb
Fill in the blank
"[Curley's] glance was at once calculating and ________" (Steinbeck 25).
Pugnacious
In the book, Slim has this.
majesty
(The prince of the ranch)
What could be an OMINOUS event? Explain how it's ominous.
(Something that is threatening/indicates that something bad will happen)
What Steinbeck was awarded for his writing in 1962
Nobel Prize in Literature
What is the definition of the American Dream?
You can achieve success with hard work, determination, and initiative
Most historians agree that the Great Depression started in what year?
1929
The TWO U.S. presidents who held office during the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fill in the blank and explain the meaning
"[W]illows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in the lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, _________ limbs and branches that arch over the pool" (Steinbeck 1).
Recumbent
The limbs and branches were lying around the water.