Characters of Of Mice and Men
Culture of the Great Depression
Quotes of Mice and Men
Events and Things of Mice and Men
Details
100

This character likes to touch soft things and has an obsession with rabbits 

 Lennie Small

100

This was the name of the movement to attempt to get women the right to vote

Suffrage

100

This character said "I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you."

Lennie 

100

This town is the town that George and Lennie escaped from at the start of the novel.

Weed

100

What book does Crooks have a "mauled" copy of

The California Civil Code

200

This character shoots Candy's dog because he doesn't want to smell it in the bunkhouse no more

Carlson

200

This is the name of the people like George and Lennie who had to leave their homes and travel to find work on ranches or plantations.

migrant farmers / workers

200

This character said "I coulda been in the movies and had nice clothes."

Curley's Wife

200

This soft material is what Lennie's aunt Clara gave to him that he lost.

Velvet 

200

What type of gun does George take from under Carlson's mattress?

a Luger

300

This character is known as a family member of Lennie before she died and used to take care of him

Aunt Clara 

300

This is the social rule that ordered people of color to separate themselves away from white society.

segregation

300

This character said "But you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him."

 George

300

This plant is what Lennie wants to feed the rabbits.

alfalfa 

300

This is what Lennie hallucinates and speaks to after he runs away to the clearing.

a giant rabbit (or Aunt Clara)

400

This character was excited that a past laborer on the ranch got his fan letter in a magazine 

Whit 

400

This is the name of a group of people who kill someone for an "offense" with no legal trial.

a lynch mob

400

This character said ""Never you mind [...] A guy got to sometimes" in response to George killing Lennie.

Slim

400

George and Lennie had to flee Weed because...

Lennie wanted to touch a girl's skirt/dress and he was accused of attempted rape.

400

This is what Whit finds in a Cowboy magazine that he gets excited about.

a Letter from a former bunkmate

500

This dog is owned by Slim and has puppies that Lennie loves to play with

Lulu

500

This person served as president for the first  few years of the Great Depression and was very unpopular with Americans (they named some of the "villages" of shacks where homeless people lived after him).

Herbert Hoover

500

This character said "I tell ya a guy gets to lonely an' he gets sick."

Crooks

500

This food is what Lennie keeps talking about that he wants with beans.

Ketchup

500

This is the thing that Curley's Wife says made her leave home.

Because her old lady stole her letters (or because she couldn't make anything of herself at home).