What are George and Lennie like?

George is small and wiry; Lennie is huge and has a mental disability.

George is huge and kind; Lennie is cruel and has a mental disability.

Lennie is small and wiry; George is huge and has a mental disability.

Lennie is huge and mean; George is small and has a mental disability.

Why did they have to leave the last farm in Weed?

Lennie wouldn’t let go of a girl’s pretty dress.

The bank foreclosed on the farm’s mortgage.

What does George say his life would be like without Lennie?

He’d have no worries and his life would be much easier.

He’d be lonely and have no one to share his dreams with.

He’d give up ranching and become a sheriff.

He’d move back to Weeds and buy a small house.

What excites Lennie most about his dream life with George?

They will both find “purty” girls and settle down.

He will strike it rich panning for gold.

When George tries not to let Lennie talk to the boss, why is the boss suspicious?

He worries that George might be taking advantage of Lennie.

Because Lennie seems violent and crazy

He thinks Lennie is making fun of him.

He suspects George and Lennie are planning to rob him.

Are George and Lennie related?

No, but George knew Lennie’s Aunt Clara.

No, they met on the ranch in Weed.

A vicious but weak ex-boxer who is the boss’s son

The old, one-handed swamper with the ancient dog

The mule driver and “prince” of the ranch

Why does Curley wear a Vaseline-filled glove on one hand?

He wants to keep his hand soft for his wife.

His hand was mangled in a piece of farm equipment.

He is soothing an old boxing injury.

What’s Curley’s wife like?

Young, flirtatious, pretty, and lonely

A frumpy homebody who doesn’t like to be disturbed

A generous free-spirit who likes to treat the men to home-made baked goods

Why did George stop playing tricks on Lennie years ago?

Because he nearly made Lennie drown once and felt ashamed

Because Lennie crushed his hand and told him never to do it again

Because Aunt Clara died from grief seeing how George mistreated Lennie

Because he played so many tricks on him it finally became boring

Why does Carlson insist on shooting Candy’s dog?

Carlson says the dog stinks and is too old and decrepit to be of any use.

The dog has attacked several people.

Carlson is mean-spirited and drunk.

Why is Candy unable to imagine getting rid of his old dog?

He has had the dog since it was a puppy.

He makes too much money breeding the animal.

He promised his wife on her deathbed that he would care for it.

What happens to Candy’s old dog?

Carlson and Slim convince him to let Carlson shoot it.

Lennie accidentally crushes it.

Candy refuses to let the men kill his dog.

Why does Candy want to give George and Lennie his life savings?

Because he wants to join them in buying their dream farm

Because he is old and wants to pass on his money to someone young and kind

Because George and Lennie con him into offering it up

Because Slim says it’s a good idea and everyone takes Slim’s advice

What happens to Curley’s hand after he beats up Lennie?

Lennie grabs his hand and crushes it.

It hurts and gets swollen from hitting Lennie with it.

He accidentally crushes it in a machine.

He breaks it in a boxing match the next day.

How does Lennie think he’ll be punished?

George won’t let him take care of the rabbits on their farm.

George will turn Lennie in to the police.

George will let Curley attack him again and maybe shoot him.

Where in town does George go?

To a whore-house with most of the other men

To visit Curley in the hospital

To the bank trying to get a loan for their farm

To ask the police to help him locate Lennie’s parents

Why does Crooks resent the other workers?

Because Crooks must sleep in the barn since he’s the only black ranch worker

Because they are better workers than he is

Because they have better luck with the ladies than he does

Because all the men got puppies except him

What possibility does Crooks upset Lennie with?

He suggests that maybe George won’t return from town.

He says that Lennie was kicked in the head by a horse when he was little.

He tells him that nobody will ever marry him.

He taunts him with the idea that there’s no such thing as rabbits.

What does Curley’s wife tell Crooks, Candy, and Lennie?

That she’s very lonely and doesn’t like Curley

That she would like to have an affair with one of them

That Curley is the best husband in the world

That she’s thinking of running off with a traveling show

What happened to the puppy Lennie is talking to in the barn?

Lennie accidentally killed it while playing with it.

It was weaned too early from its mother and died.

It killed a mouse so Lennie hit it.

What does Curley’s wife say about the puppy?

Not to worry because there are plenty of mutts in the world

That it was a special puppy and Lennie will go to Hell

That she feels sorry for it like she feels sorry for herself

That it was cuddly and sweet like Lennie

What was Curley’s wife’s dream life?

To move to Hollywood and become a movie star

To travel through Europe and wear fancy clothes

To marry a rich, older man and live on a steamboat

What happens when Curley’s wife tells Lennie to touch her hair more gently?

Lennie gets scared, suffocates her, and breaks her neck.

He complies and the wife starts humming a beautiful melody.

Lennie jumps up and runs out of the barn.

George and Candy see them through the window but think everything’s okay.

What do the men decide to do when they discover the dead body?

They decide to kill both George and Lennie.

They let Curley go after Lennie alone.

Where does George find Lennie?

At the riverbed where they stayed the night before going to the ranch

Who does Lennie imagine yelling at him?

His Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit

Curley’s wife and the girl in Weeds

All the rabbits on the imaginary farm

What does George say to Lennie?

He tells him how disappointed in him he is.

What does George do while he describes the farm to Lennie?

He shoots him in the back of the head.

He lets Curley shoot him in the back of the head.

He hits him in the head with a shovel.

How does George say he killed Lennie?

He says he took Carlson's gun from him and shot him

He says a horse kicked him in the head

He says he drowned him like the puppies

What do Curley and Carlson have a hard time understanding?

Why George and Slim seem serious and upset

What George will do now without Lennie

Why George couldn’t wait for Curley to kill Lennie

How George knew where to find Lennie

Of Mice and Men Review 2022

Quiz

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English

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9th - 10th Grade

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Practice Problem

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Easy

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CCSS

RL.6.3, RL.9-10.3, RL.11-12.9

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Katie Benassi

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50 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

large, childlike migrant worker; loves animals and soft things; wants to own rabbits

Candy

George

Lennie

Slim

small and wiry, cares for Lennie, working to get money to buy a farm

Candy

Carlson

George

Lennie

swamper, one armed ranch handyman, owns an old dog

Candy

Carlson

Crooks

Curley

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

dresses in fancy red shoes, lonely, men think she is a tramp, name never mentioned

Aunt Clara

Candy

Curley's wife

Slim

black stable-hand, crooked back from an accident, isolated because of race

Candy

Carlson

Crooks

Slim

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

son of the ranch owner, wears high-heeled boots, likes to fight

Carlson

Curley

Slim

The Boss

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

skilled mule driver and skinner, respected on the ranch, others look to him for advice

Carlson

Curley

Slim

The Boss

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Of Mice and Men Review 2022

50 questions

large, childlike migrant worker; loves animals and soft things; wants to own rabbits

small and wiry, cares for Lennie, working to get money to buy a farm

swamper, one armed ranch handyman, owns an old dog

dresses in fancy red shoes, lonely, men think she is a tramp, name never mentioned

black stable-hand, crooked back from an accident, isolated because of race

son of the ranch owner, wears high-heeled boots, likes to fight

skilled mule driver and skinner, respected on the ranch, others look to him for advice

ranch hand, complains about Candy's dog, owns a gun

owns the ranch, father of Curley, seems fair-minded

Lennie's aunt, cared for him until her death

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