Themes
Figurative Language
Storyline
Deeper Understanding
About Steinbeck
100

The first differences Mama notices about Pepe when he comes home that have turned him into a man

What are changes to his face
100

How Mama refers to Pepe

What is silly names

100

What Pepe goes to Monterey for

What is medicine and salt
100

Why Pepe wants to be a man

What is the death of his father

100

The Steinbeck novel read in Mr. Edwards' class

What is Of Mice and Men

200

The theme shown by the loss of Pepe's knife and gaining of a gun

What is a quick maturity

200

The type of figurative language that contrasts the reason why Pepe went to Monterey and what ended up happening

What is irony

200

What animal Pepe faces before his death

What is a mountain lion

200

Why Pepe needed to leave his home

What is to protect his family

200

Steinbeck's home state

What is California

300

What Pepe's journey represents

What is the quick transition from adolescence to death
300

What the forest really is in the story

What is a metaphor
300

The names of Pepe's siblings

What is Rosy and Emilio

300
What the "dark watchers" represented

What is incoming danger

300

Steinbeck's birth year

What is 1902

400

What Pepe crawling through the bushes conveys

What is the animality of people in life threatening situations

400

What the knife represents in the story

What is a loss of innocence

400

How Pepe's father died

What is a rattlesnake

400
The significance of the horse's death

What is a loss of companionship

400

Year Steinbeck own a Nobel Prize

What is 1962
500

What the shootout in the wild represents

What is inevitability of death

500

The color that represents imminent danger in the story

What is black

500

The amount of bullets left in the gun Mama gave to Pepe

What is ten
500

What emotion the final stand on the cliff symbolizes

What is pride

500

Famous author Steinbeck won a Nobel Prize over

Who is Robert Frost