Of Mice and Men - Chapter 5

Question 1

“‘Why do you got to get killed? You ain’t so little as mice. I didn’t bounce you hard.’”

Answer 1

pg120

Lennie did not mean to kill the pup. Doesn’t understand his own strength.

Question 2

“‘Now I won’t get to tend the rabbits. Now he won’t let me.’ He rocked himself back and forth in his sorrow.”

Answer 2

pg121

All Lennie is concerned about is the rabbits and his sorrow is for them, not for the pup he has just killed.

Question 3

“‘I don’t (like) Curley. He ain’t a nice fella.’”

Answer 3

pg125

Curley’s wife confesses how she feels about her husband.

Question 4

“‘You stop it now, you’ll mess it all up.’ She jerked her head sideways, and Lennie’s fingers closed on her hair and hung on.”

Answer 4

pg127

After inviting Lennie to touch her hair, she wants him to stop, but he just holds on. Link to the red dress in weed.

Question 5

“and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.”

Answer 5

pg128

Lennie shakes her to make her be quiet. He doesn’t mean to kill her.