Fig. Language/Theme
Pros / Cons
Setting
Plot
Quotables
100
This theme is evident through the relationship between George and Lennie and Candy and his dog.
What is friendship?
100
This character is compared to a bear and a horse.
Who is Lennie?
100
The name of the town in which we find the ranch.
What is Soledad?
100
The card game George plays.
What is solitaire?
100
Character described in this line: "He had books, too; a tattered dictionary."
Who is Crooks?
200
Lennie describes his own version of this theme when he describes how he will tend rabbits on his own ranch.
What is the American Dream?
200
This character has a quick temper but doesn't ever fight.
Who is George?
200
The place where Curley's wife wishes to be.
What is "in pitchers"?
200
The game all the men play.
What is horseshoes?
200
Theme of this line: "'Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.'"
What is the American Dream?
300
The symbol or motif that Steinbeck uses to emphasize the human need for interaction.
What is hands?
300
This character is the "prince of the ranch."
Who is Slim?
300
The place where Curley meets his wife.
What is the Riverside Dance Palace?
300
The job title of Slim.
What is a jerk line skinner?
300
Speaker of the following lines: "'You got a nice cozy little place in here. Must be nice to have a room all to yourself this way.'"
Who is Candy?
400
When a character speaks alone on stage and speaks of his thoughts and feelings.
What is monologue / soliloquy?
400
This character accuses George of taking Lennie's pay.
Who is the Boss?
400
The era in which the novel takes place.
What is the Great Depression?
400
The two characters that appear to Lennie in the final section.
Who are a giant rabbit and Aunt Clara?
400
Literary device reflected in this quote: "There was a clang of horseshoe on iron stake."
What is foreshadowing?
500
George and Carlson both enact this theme through the act of killing.
What is mercy?
500
This character talks about Western magazines and Curley's wife.
Who is Whit?
500
This mountain range described in the novella.
What is the Gabilan Mountains?
500
Lennie fears this will be his punishment for murder.
What is he will not be able to tend the rabbits?
500
The theme reflected in this quote: "'They left all the weak ones here.'"
What is outcasts in society / othering?
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