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Of Mice and Men Pre-Reading Vocab Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does it mean to mark with spots or blotches of different shades or colors?

a)

Mottled

b)

Recumbent

c)

Junctures

d)

Droned

2.

What does it mean to lie down, especially in a position of comfort or rest?

a)

Brusquely

b)

Lumbered

c)

Morosely

d)

Recumbent

3.

How would you describe someone who is sullenly melancholy?

a)

Morosely

b)

Anguished

c)

Imperiously

d)

Pantomime

4.

What is the meaning of 'junctures'?

a)

A place where two things are joined

b)

To complain or whine

c)

To make a continued, low, dull humming sound

d)

To walk or move with heavy clumsiness

5.

What does it mean to make a continued, low, dull humming sound?

a)

Mottled

b)

Yammered

c)

Droned

d)

Recumbent

6.

How would you describe someone who walks or moves with heavy clumsiness?

a)

Lumbered

b)

Anguished

c)

Brusquely

d)

Imperiously

7.

In what manner does someone act if they are arrogantly overbearing or domineering?

a)

Pantomime

b)

Imperiously

c)

Anguished

d)

Morosely

8.

What is the telling of a story without words, by means of bodily movements, gestures, or facial expressions called?

a)

Mottled

b)

Yammered

c)

Pantomime

d)

Junctures

9.

How would you describe someone who is expressing agonizing physical or mental pain?

a)

Recumbent

b)

Anguished

c)

Droned

d)

Lumbered

10.

What does it mean to complain or whine?

a)

Imperiously

b)

Morosely

c)

Brusquely

d)

Yammered