Who Said This?
Literary Terms
Chapters 1 & 2
Chapter 3
Themes
100

Said, "Ain't a thing in my pocket."

Who is Lennie?

100

The rabbits sat as quietly as little smooth sculptured stones.

What is simile?

100

In chapter 1 he is first characterized as frustrated.

Who is George?

100

The game the characters are playing in the beginning of Chapter 3.

What is horseshoes?

100

One example from the text that demonstrates the desire of the American Dream.

What is the farm George & Lennie want to own?

*will accept additional responses if team can support it with explanation/text evidence 

200

Said "What the hell kind of bed you giving us? We don't want no pants rabbits."

Who is George?

200

He looked across the fire and watched the flames dance on Lennie's face.

What is personification?

200

The town that Lennie and George were "Run Outta."

What is Weed?

200

This character finds it 'funny' that George and Lennie travel together?

Who is Slim?

200

One example from the text that supports the theme of mercy killing.

What is the shooting of Candy's dog?

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300

Said, "Why don't you speak when you're spoken to?"

Who is Curley or The Boss?

300

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep.

What is setting?

300

This character arrives on the scene with his heeled boots and gloved hand.

Who is Curley?

300

The animal that George tells Lennie to put back in the barn.

What is a puppy?

300

One example from the text that demonstrates the theme regarding loneliness and isolation?

What is the life of a migrant worker?

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400

Said, "She slang her pups last night...nine of em'. I drowned four right off."

Who is Slim?

400

Character Lennie Smalls.

What is irony?

400

While all characters think that Curley's wife is trouble, he finds her particularly attractive.

Who is Lennie?

400

The thing Slim persuades Curley to tell his father that his hand was crushed by.

What is a machine?

400

One example from the text that shows the contrast between what is reality and romanticism.

What is behavior of Lennie?

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500

Said "She's got the eye going all the time. She may have even gave the stable buck the eye."

Who is Candy?

500

“First chance I get I‘ll give you a pup. Maybe you wouldn’t kill it.  That’d be better than mice.”

What is foreshadowing?

500

The two emotions George revealed when he described what he could do if he didn't have Lennie hanging around him were...

What is anger and guilt?

500

The author describes this character after a fight is "flopping like a fish on a line?" in chapter 3.

Who is Curley?

500

One example from the text that demonstrates how people will abuse the power they have over others.

What is Curley's actions toward Lennie?

*will accept additional responses if team can support it with explanation/text evidence