Characters
Setting
Events
Themes
Great Depression
100

The character with a disability.

Who is Lennie?

100

Where the characters work.

What is a farm?

100

What Lennie finds in the grass and tries to keep for petting.

What is a mouse?

100

Whether an action or idea is good or bad.

What is Morality?

100

A period of time in American history when money was scarce and many people could not afford to live.

What is the Great Depression?

200

The person Slim comforted after Lennie's death.

Who is George?

200

Where Lennie kills a puppy and Curley's wife.

What is a barn?

200

The last major event in the book.

What is Lennie's death?

200

Our instinct to protect ourselves from the unknown.

What is Fear?

200

The cause of the Great Depression.

What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

300

What Curley's wife wanted to be.

What is an actress?
300

The geographical feature George and Lennie were using to travel to the farm.

What is a valley?

300

The major turning point in the book.

What is Curley's wife's death?

300

The theme that George represented when he shot Lennie.

What is Loyalty vs. Survival?

300

The most common type of job during the Great Depression.

What is a farm worker?

400

The person whose dog was shot.

Who is Candy?

400

The town that George and Lennie were coming from where Lennie touched a girl's dress.

What is Weed?

400

The event that makes Lennie incredibly happy and sets up the chain of events that leads to him killing Curley's wife.

What is Lennie getting a puppy?

400

A wish for something better.

What is the Nature of Dreams?

400

A place where many people got food during the Great Depression.

What is a soup kitchen?

500

The character who threatened to shoot Lennie in the gut and string him up.

Who is Curley?

500

Where Lennie was instructed to go if he got in trouble again.

What is the brush?

500

The sauce that Lennie wanted on his beans.

What is ketchup?

500

The theme that Curley represents.

What is Power?

500

Places that were overrun by dust storms, which many people had to move away from.

What are dust bowls?