Of Mice and Men

I need to act tough with everyone because I feel smaller than everyone.

• Curley

• Crooks

• Curley's wife

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

I could have been an actor/actress, but now no one will talk to me.

• Curley

• Curley's wife

• Crooks

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I find companionship in an animal and am hurt to lose him by Carlson.

• Slim

• Curley

• Candy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Crooks is not allowed to hang out in the bunk house because he is always angry and complains often.

• true

• false

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Men who worked on ranches generally stuck together, traveled together, and felt like family.

• true

• false

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Crooks and Curley’s wife were treated in a similar fashion, though for different reasons.

• true

• false

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The setting, dialogue, and many of the actions during the first and last chapters of the novel are very similar.

• true

• false

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Several people seem suspicious of George doing all the talking for Lennie. What claim does this suspicion support?

• George is not very trustworthy

• people do not trust an outsider because they assume he has different values

• you should not judge a book by its cover

• people were such loners that they were not used to someone looking out for someone else

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What do Curley’s wife and Crooks share in common?

• being angry because they are cut off from normal communication with others

• a dislike for horses

• a strong desire to make the ranch a better place

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

''A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody…a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick” (84).

• pun

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3