Characters
The character with a disability.
Who is Lennie?
Where the characters work.
What is a farm?
What Lennie finds in the grass and tries to keep for petting.
What is a mouse?
Whether an action or idea is good or bad.
What is Morality?
A period of time in American history when money was scarce and many people could not afford to live.
What is the Great Depression?
The person Slim comforted after Lennie's death.
Who is George?
Where Lennie kills a puppy and Curley's wife.
What is a barn?
The last major event in the book.
What is Lennie's death?
Our instinct to protect ourselves from the unknown.
What is Fear?
The cause of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
What Curley's wife wanted to be.
The geographical feature George and Lennie were using to travel to the farm.
What is a valley?
The major turning point in the book.
What is Curley's wife's death?
The theme that George represented when he shot Lennie.
What is Loyalty vs. Survival?
The most common type of job during the Great Depression.
What is a farm worker?
The person whose dog was shot.
Who is Candy?
The town that George and Lennie were coming from where Lennie touched a girl's dress.
What is Weed?
The event that makes Lennie incredibly happy and sets up the chain of events that leads to him killing Curley's wife.
What is Lennie getting a puppy?
A wish for something better.
What is the Nature of Dreams?
A place where many people got food during the Great Depression.
What is a soup kitchen?
The character who threatened to shoot Lennie in the gut and string him up.
Who is Curley?
Where Lennie was instructed to go if he got in trouble again.
What is the brush?
The sauce that Lennie wanted on his beans.
What is ketchup?
The theme that Curley represents.
What is Power?
Places that were overrun by dust storms, which many people had to move away from.
What are dust bowls?