Of Mice And Men--Intro--Per. 1

Where was Steinbeck born?

• Salinas, Oregon
• Salinas, Santa Barbara
• Salinas, California
• Salinas, New York

Steinbeck knew a lot about migrant farmers because he...

• Spent his summers working with them and learned about their lives that way.
• Spent time working in the winter with his father who was a farmer
• Read a lot about farmers and longed to be a farm owner one day.  Yeehaw!
• Who's Steinbeck?

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This book is set in the  ________________.

• San Joaquin Valley
• Salinas Valley
• Hidden Valley Ranch Valley
• Cali Valley

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In what year was this book written?

• 1937
• 1917
• 1897
• 12000 B.C. (Cavemen Rock, DUDE!)

Why would someone care about reading this book, according to the powerpoint?

• This book is cool!
• This book is often censored.
• This book has bad language.
• All of the above.

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Of Mice and Men is controversial because of the way it talks about and portrays women.

• True
• False
• How should I know? I haven't even read it yet.  Man...why you sweatin' me, Dude?
• Is it the end of class yet?

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Roughly how long is the book?

• What book?
• About 1000 pages long.  That is TOO long for me, Mr. Teacher Man!
• About 100 pages
• About 115 pages long.  Sweet!

What are the themes of this book? (Choose the best answer).

• Dreams, Friendship, Violence, and Loneliness
• Friendship, Evil, Food, Heaven
• I love gifs!  I love Jif!  I love peanut butter (Oh...I'm sorry...we're you saying something?)
• Drama, Enemies, Togetherness, Memes

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The biggest crop of the day, during the time period in which the story is set, was:

• Meat
• Wheat
• Beets
• Feet (ouch!)

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A migrant farm worker during the time period of the story can be described as someone who:

• Moved away from their home to find work.
• Worked for low pay doing manual labor.
• Lived in poor, dirty, and hopeless conditions that were likely far worse than what students at DP have to live through.
• All of the above.

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