Plot
Characters
Literary Elements & Setting
Book Facts & The Author
Themes
100
George tells Slim that Lennie was accused of this, which is the reason they had to leave Weed.
rape?
100
This person wants to join Lennie and George's Dream
Candy
100
This is the place that Lennie and George leave in the beginning of the novel.
What is Weed?
100
This man is the author of the novella Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck?
100
Crooks expresses this theme when he describes his life at the ranch where he spends most of his time in his room.
What is loneliness?
200
Lennie kills this animal, which foreshadows his later killing.
What is a mouse?
200
This character wears a glove of vaseline on his hand and high-heeled boots.
Who is Curley?
200
Lennie's size and his last name are an example of this type of literary element.
What is irony?
200
What the title could mean
I'll take any good answers!
200
This theme is evident through the relationship between George and Lennie, but also between George and Slim.
What is friendship?
300
After Lennie crushes Curley's hand, the men lie and say it was crushed by this.
What is a machine?
300
This character is known for his exceptional horse shoe playing skills and also tells Lennie that George may never return.
Who is Crooks?
300
This is where George tells Lennie to go if he ever gets in trouble.
the brush by the river
300
Of Mice and Men is set in this decade
1930s
300
Lennie describes his own version of this theme when he dreams about the ranch and having a place of his own.
What is the American Dream?
400
Carlson thinks that Lennie took this from him when it was George who used this to kill Lennie.
What is a luger?
400
This person cared for Lennie before George did.
Aunt Clara
400
Candy's dog's death serves as this type of literary element to Lennie's death.
What is foreshadowing?
400
What Steinbeck worked as before he was a writer
A ranch worker
400
George and Carlson both enact this theme through the act of killing.
mercy and the greater good.
500
This persons murder is the climax of the story.
Who is Curley's wife?
500
This character is the only one who is never given an actual name in the entire novella.
Who is Curley's wife?
500
The ranch workers have a hierarchy where black people, women and disabled people are of lower status. Steinbeck could show us this on the ranch to show it as a microcosm of what?
Society in 1930s America
500
The name of the town close to the ranch (Soledad) foreshadows what?
The loneliness of the characters and the ultimate loneliness of George
500
George embodies this theme by taking care of Lennie.
What is self-sacrifice?