Of Mice and Men Review

In the power structure of the ranch, which character has the least amount of power?

George and Lennie are different from the other men

"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why!”

Did you actually read the book?

Why does Carlson want to shoot Candy’s dog?

“I ought to of shot that dog myself.”

George goes to the ranch house and steals Curley’s gun.

“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody."

"He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.”

This story was written to examine the predatory nature of humanity

Whit reads aloud a letter to the editor he wrote that was published in a Western magazine

Crooks changes his mind about joining the dream farm

“You hadda, George. I swear, you hadda.”

Lennie likes mustard on his beans.

George tells Lennie that he’s sorry and that he was never really mad at Lennie.

Which of the following characters checks the dead body of Curley’s wife for vital signs?

George and Lennie spent a total of eight days on the ranch.

Curley always carries a bull whip

Of Mice and Men is set in which decade?

After killing Curley’s wife, which pair of figures appear and scold Lennie?

Lennie didn’t like the rubber mouse his mother bought for him because it wasn’t soft

Steinbeck tells us that Lennie likes to pet soft things, which literary technique is he using?

Disappointed with her life, Curley’s wife wonders where she would be if she had become...

Of Mice and Men was first published in 1937

Curley’s wife invites Lennie to hold her hand and rub her shoulders

“What the hell you laughin’ at?”

“Bus driver give us a bum steer…we hadda walk ten miles.”

How did Crooks get his name?

“If I catch any one man, and he’s alone, I get along fine with him."

Both Crooks’ alarm clock and his single-barreled shotgun could be seen as loneliness

Crooks was given $250 after his hand was mangled in a piece of farm equipment.

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”

George’s last name is Small.

“God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.”

A “cathouse” is another term for “whorehouse” or “brothel.”

The structure of the novel most resembles a

Before George meets Lennie in the woods in the final scene, whose gun does he take?

In which state is the story set?

George is the first person to discover the dead body of Curley’s wife

Candy will still go and buy the small farm on his own; with or without George and Lennie

Lennie’s last name is Milton

From whom does Candy seek advice before allowing Carlson to shoot his dog?

Lennie is described as a terrier, a bull, a horse, and a bear

Curley keeps Vaseline in one of his gloves to help soothe an old boxing injury.

“Everybody wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here."