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Who said the following quotation and what does it mean? I could get along so easy and nice if I didn't have you on my tail. I could live so easy and have a girl.
George. It's a burden to look after Lennie but he still enjoys the companionship.
100
Why does Carlson want to kill Candy's dog?
He thinks that the dog is old and useless. Survival of the fittest.
100
Candy's dog.
How people want to dispose of the useless and old. The strong overpowering the weak.
100
He is an old swamper.
Candy
100
During what time period does the novel take place?
The Great Depression of the 1930's.
200
. . . if you jus' happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an' hide in the brush.
George. Foreshadowing what might happen with Lennie.
200
What is unusual about George and Lennie's relationship?
They are friends which is unusual for migrant workers as they move so constantly to find work.
200
What does the farm represent to George and Lennie?
It is their American Dream. An opportunity for independence and happiness.
200
A strong and simple man who has been taken care of by his aunt.
Lennie
200
Name the title of another Steinbeck novel.
The Grapes of Wrath, Cup of Gold, or Tortilla Flat.
300
Someday -- we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have little house and a couple of ares an' a cow . . .
George, talking about his American Dream.
300
A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.
Predatory nature. The weak are overpowered by the strong. Foreshadows Lennie's death at the end of the novel.
300
Lennie's puppy
It represents the power of the strong over the weak and foreshadows the death of Lennie.
300
Who does the following quote describe? There was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke. His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love.
Slim
300
What caused the stock market crash during the Great Depression?
A recession led to a drop of market price farm crops. Their was also a drought.
400
Well I ain't giving you trouble. Think I don't like to talk to somebody ever' once in a while? Think I like to stick in that house alla time?
Curley's wife. She is disempowered by her loneliness and isolation.
400
What theme do the following circumstances share? Curley's wife has resigned herself to an unfulfilling marriage. After Lennie's death, George and Candy realize there is no possibility of having their own farm.
The represent the impossibility of attaining the American Dream.
400
Heron and Snake.
The heron overpowers the snake. The strong overpower the weak.
400
She is left unnamed in the book and has given up her dreams of being a star in Hollywood.
Curley's wife.
400
Where did most of the migrant workers come from?
Oklahoma
500
Rabbits never appear in the story though Lennie is desperate to tend for them on the farm. What theme does this emphasize?
Lennie loves to pet soft things and in his mind the rabbits represent his own simple dream. He will never be able achieve his dream and the rabbit in his imagination tells him so (pg. 102). He even realizes the impossibility of the dream.
500
Rabbits
They represent Lennie's desire to nurture something else and the dream of owning their own farm.
500
A crippled and lonely stablebuck.
Crooks
500
What was the nickname for many of the migrant workers?
Okies