*Of Mice and Men* Quiz Prep

"I ain't much good with on'y one hand. I lost my hand right here on this ranch. That's why they give me a job swampin'...I ain't much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How'd that be?"

• Crooks

• Candy

• Curley

• Slim

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. "

• Curley

• Candy

• George

• Crooks

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Baloney...I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass. I know you guys."

• Curley

• Carlson

• Curley's Wife

• Crooks

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment." What has just happened?

• Lennie has just accidentally killed Curley's wife.

• Lennie just accidentally killed his pup.

• George just realized he had to end Lennie's life.

• Lennie just crushed Curley's hand.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

"You never give a thought to George...He been doin' nice things for you alla time. When he got a piece a pie you always got half or more'n half. An' if they was any ketchup, why he'd give it all to you."

• Giant Hallucinated Rabbit

• Slim

• Curley's Wife

• Aunt Clara

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water." Why is this an example of foreshadowing?

• because Lennie and George used to swim in this same deep pool

• because it shows how many men have passed wearily through this same place, just like Lennie and George will very soon

• because this is the place where Lennie will accidentally kill Curley's wife

• because this is the place where George tried to drown Lennie

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

"He's a nice fella...Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella."

• Candy

• Slim

• George

• Crooks

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of these characters would be considered a *foil* for Curley (i.e. a character whose characteristics starkly contrast with Curley's)?

• Curley's Wife

• Slim

• Timms

• Carlson

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Come on, ya big bastard. Get up on your feet. No big son-of-a-b*tch is gonna laugh at me. I'll show ya who's yella."

• Carlson

• Candy

• George

• Curley

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego--nothing to arouse either like or dislike." What has just happened?

• George rejected Crooks' friendship.

• Everyone refused to play cards with Crooks.

• Lennie has just threatened Crooks.

• Curley's Wife just threatened Crooks.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2