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Characters
Themes
Literary Terms
The Author
Symbols and Foreshadowing
100
This character is small, smart, and sensible compared to his larger companion.
Who is George Milton
100
This is a major theme in the story Of Mice and Men where character are left feeling by themselves in the world
What is loneliness
100
This literary term means to represent an object or an idea
What is a symbol
100
The author of Grapes of Wrath
Who is John Steinbeck
100
When carlson shoots candy's dog, what does this foreshadow.
What is George shooting Lennie
200
This character is a hulking mountain of a man with a soft and gentle personality despite his mental hardship.
Who is Lennie Small
200
Lennie is a great example of this in Of Mice and Men
What is innocence
200
This is the central topic, subject, or idea that an author tries to point out in literature
What is a theme
200
Of Mice and Men was published in this year
What is the year 1937
200
George and Lennie's dream symbolizes this
What is the American Dream
300
This character is a hardworking, respectable farmhand. He a very skilled skinner.
Who is Slim
300
George wants this but can't have it, because of Lennie
What is independence
300
This means to predict the future using symbols and patterns in a piece of literature
What is foreshadowing
300
John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for this in 1962
What is Literature
300
What does Lennie's killing of the puppy and Curley's wife symbolize
What is Lennie's strength
400
This short, tempermental man is always looking for respect from his peers.
Who is Curley
400
What does Lennie have that Curley wants
What is respect
400
A character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works again the main character
What is an antagonist
400
John Steinbeck's father's name
What is John Steinbeck
400
What does Crook's social life represent
What is the mistreatment of African Americans
500
This spicy temptress of the shadows seduces men and betrays her husband
What is Curley's wife
500
What does Curley's wife want from all the men, but instead gets disdain and contempt.
What is attention
500
When a character reveals his innermost thoughts and feelings through a speech that is given while all the other characters are on stage
What is dramatic monologue
500
Steinbeck went to this University
What is Stanford University
500
What can you foreshadow will happen when Lennie kills Curley's wife
What is Curley wanting to kill Lennie