Of Mice and Men Chapters 1&2

From which town did Lennie and George escape?

• Weed
• Salinas
• Soledad
• Sacramento

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

WHO said it?
"If I was alone I could live so easy.  I could get a job an’ not have no mess.”

• Lennie
• Curley
• Curley's wife
• George

WHO said it?
“Tell about what we’re gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in winter and the stoves, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut.”

• Lennie
• Curley
• Curley's wife
• George

What SIMILE does George use to describe Lennie? 

• as cuckoo as a clock
• as strong as a bull
• as lazy as a cow
• mean like a bear

Identify the figurative language: 
Lennie drank with long gulps, snorting the water like a horse

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

Swamper, farmhand, crippled arm, has an old dog

• Slim
• Crooks
• Curley
• Candy

Former professional boxer, quick to argue

• Crooks
• Curley
• Carlson
• Slim

Skinner, respected by the other men on the ranch

• Crooks
• Curley
• Candy
• Slim

Stable buck, African-American, has a crooked spine from being kicked by a horse.

• Crooks
• Curley
• Candy
• Slim

When they first come to work, George  says Lennie is his.... ?

• friend
• brother
• cousin
• he doesn't know him