Characters
$100: This character travels with Lennie and usually makes decisions.
Answer: Who is George?
$100: George and Lennie dream of someday owning one of these.
Answer: What is their own farm/piece of land?
$100: George worries about this character almost immediately after meeting them.
Answer: Who is Curley?
$100: Carlson argues that Candy's dog should be killed mainly because of this.
Answer: What is the dog being old, suffering, and no longer useful?
$100: George says men who travel around alone eventually become like this.
Answer: What is lonely and mean?
$200: This ranch worker has lost one hand and owns an aging dog.
Answer: Who is Candy?
$200: This is the part of the dream Lennie is most excited about.
Answer: What are rabbits?
$200: George warns Lennie to stay away from this person.
Answer: Who is Curley's wife?
$200: After his dog is shot, Candy responds primarily by doing this.
Answer: What is lying silently and staring at the wall/ceiling?
$200: George and Lennie's relationship is unusual because they have this while most ranch workers are alone.
Answer: What is companionship/friendship?
$300: This character is the boss's son.
Answer: Who is Curley?
$300: Unlike most ranch workers, George and Lennie have this.
Answer: What is companionship / someone to rely on?
$300: Curley seems to dislike men who have this physical characteristic.
Answer: What is being big/tall?
$300: Curley attacks Lennie because he believes Lennie is doing this.
Answer: What is laughing at him?
$300: Candy's fear about his future after his dog is killed develops the idea that people may lose value when they become this.
Answer: What is old or unable to work?
$400: This highly skilled mule driver is respected by nearly everyone on the ranch.
Answer: Who is Slim?
$400: This character offers his savings to George and Lennie so he can join their plan.
Answer: Who is Candy?
$400: In Weed, how did Lennie frighten a person?
Answer: What is he grabbed a woman's dress?
$400: Lennie finally fights back against because of this.
Answer: What is George tells him "Get him, Lennie!" / to fight back?
$400: Lennie has enormous physical strength but is vulnerable because of this.
Answer: What is he depends on George?
$500: This character wants attention and companionship but creates trouble as a result.
Answer: Who is Curley's wife?
$500: How does the dream shift in chapter 3?
Answer: What is it looks more realistic now that Candy joins and offers money?
$500: After the Weed incident, George and Lennie were forced to do this.
Answer: What is hide and flee/leave Weed?
$500: The men agree to say this really happened to Curley's hand
Answer: What is caught in a machine?
$500: George and Lennie's farm represents more than land; it represents ideas such as these.
Answer: What are, the American Dream, freedom, independence, security, belonging, and hope? (Any of these)