Of Mice and Men Sections 1 & 2

What are George and Lennie like?

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

• • George is small and wiry; Lennie is huge 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.

What does Lennie do with the mouse he is carrying in his pocket?

• • He throws it across the stream.

• He sets it free it in the woods.

• • He accidentally crushes it to death petting it.

• He scares George with it and they both laugh.

Why does Lennie have a dead mouse with him at the start of the book?

• He collects dead animals

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  He likes to stroke soft things

• He thinks it is a puppy

• He wants a friend

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

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

• Lennie killed too many mice.

• George stole from the boss.

• The bank foreclosed on the farm’s mortgage.

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

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

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

• He’d give up ranching and become a sheriff.

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

When will Lennie get to tend rabbits?

• • When they go to work at the new farm

• • When they buy themselves a farm of their own

• When Aunt Clara sends for them

• When the boss starts his rabbit farm

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?

• Yes, they are cousins.

• Yes, they are brothers.

• No, they met on the ranch in Weeds.

• • No, but George knew Lennie’s Aunt Clara.

Who is Curley?

• The Black stable-hand

• • 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

What’s Curley’s wife like?

• Demure, pretty, and polite

• • 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