OMAM Chapter 5

When Crooks asks Lennie why he is in the barn at night, Lennie states, “I come to see my pup” (69). Yet he stays in Crooks’ doorway, even after Crooks says he is not welcome and tells him to go back to the bunk-house. The most likely reason Lennie doesn’t leave is that…

• Lennie is hiding from Curley.

• Candy made Lennie angry by threatening to harm the rabbits.

• George is in town with the men, and Lennie is lonely.

• Crooks asked Lennie to help him treat a mule.

Crooks tells Lennie that “a guy needs somebody- to be near him…A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you” (72). Choose the literary term that best fits this statement.

• Simile

• Symbol

• Theme

• Personification

Which answer most accurately describes how Curley’s wife found out that Lennie broke Curley’s hand?

• Crooks accidentally lets the information slip.

• Candy tells her if she doesn’t watch out, Lennie will break her hand too.

• Lennie answers her question honestly.

• She sees the bruises on Lennie’s face and puts it together.

When Candy tells Crooks that what Curley’s wife said was wrong, Crooks replies, “It wasn’t nothing…You guys comin’ in and settin’ made me forget. What she says is true” (82). Which statement best summarizes what Crooks “forgot?”

• He had chores to do that didn’t get done.

• He already has a place to go when he can’t work at the ranch anymore.

• He doesn’t like being around people with disabilities.

• He will always be treated differently because of the color of his skin.

Which answer best describes why Lennie’s puppy has died?

• Lennie hit it for nipping at him.

• Lennie took it away from its mother too soon.

• Slim suffocated it because it was the runt of the litter.

• A horse accidentally stepped on it.

When Curley’s wife comes into the barn to talk to Lennie, where is George?

• Fixing a harness.

• Putting tar on a mule’s hoof.

• Playing in a horseshoe tournament.

• In town at Suzie’s Place.

Which statement below best summarizes the dream Curley’s wife had for her future, before she met Curley?

• She wanted to be a famous dancer.

• She wanted to marry the boy next door.

• She wanted to go to college to get away from her mother.

• She wanted to go to Hollywood and be in the movies.

Why does Curley’s wife let Lennie touch her hair?

• Lennie is a good listener.

• She and Lennie both like to touch soft things.

• She realizes that Lennie is nice, and thinks he is harmless.

• All of the above.

In this chapter Lennie tells Curley’s wife that the reason the death of his puppy is so upsetting to him is that now he “won’t get to tend the rabbits”(85). The fact that the loss of imaginary rabbits he never had is more tragic to him than the death of his real pet puppy is an example of…

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Allusion

• Personification

Which statement best describes how Curley’s wife dies?

• She trips and falls running from Lennie.

• Lennie breaks her neck while trying to stop her from screaming.

• She suffocates because she can’t breathe with his hand over her mouth.

• Lennie frightens her so much she has a heart attack.