Of Mice and Men

Question 1

“He ain’t mean”‘repeated in…

Answer 1

Start of Chapter 3

Question 2

Lennie: “I done a real bad thing… I shouldn’t have did that. George’ll be mad.”

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Bases his moral judgement on what George will think

Question 3

Lennie “sure can…

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take his orders.”

Question 4

Lennie: “Sure he’s jes’ like a kid…

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There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong.”

Question 5

George: “I ain’t nothing…

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to scream about, but Lennie…”

Question 6

George: “restless…

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eyes.”

Question 7

George: “We kinda

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look after each other.”

Question 8

George: “You keep

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away from Curley, Lennie.”

Question 9

George: “Guys like us, that

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work on a ranch, are the loneliest guys in the world.”

Question 10

George: “We got…

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a future.”

Question 11

George “-I think I knowed…

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from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her.”

Question 12

George symbolises

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the average migrant worker.

Question 13

Slim: “there was ___ in his manner”

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Gravity; suggests power, strength & security

Question 14

Slim CRUEL vs KIND

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CRUEL; agrees Candy’s dog must be shot

KIND; gives Lennie a puppy

Question 15

Modifiers used to make Slim appear God-like:

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Royalty

Majesty

Prince of the Ranch

Question 16

Slim is more like…

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A set of values than a real personality.

Question 17

Slim can be used to…

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set a benchmark to compare other characters to.

Question 18

Slim doesn’t need

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“no high heeled boots”

Question 19

Slim is angry when…

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Curley is cruel to Lennie, because he has a strong sense of justice

Question 20

Candy

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has a physical weakness

can be malicious

(because he is malicious)

Question 21

Curley is

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a major figure to present theme of injustice

Question 22

Curley “won’t ever

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get canned cause he’s the old man’s boss”

Question 23

Curley “ain’t

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a nice fella”

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Crooks is

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the only character to identify dreams are unrealistic.

Question 25

Crook: “nobody gets

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to heaven, and nobody gets no land.”

Question 26

Curley’s wife and

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can be vindictive

portrays theme of loneliness

has had her own dreams destroyed

Question 27

Curley’s wife has power in

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her feminity and sexuality.

Question 28

Curley’s wife: “Why can’t I talk

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to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”

Question 29

The boss is a

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distant figure

Question 30

Carlson is

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pragmatic and insensitive

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Carlson is a “powerful,

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big-stomached man”

Question 32

Whit has

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no real involvement.

Question 33

why is lennie portrayed with animal characteristics?

Answer 33

because animals don’t have a moral understanding and can be dangerous because of this