Of Mice and Men Quotes

Question 1

What does Candy say the boss does to Crooks? (racism)

Answer 1

‘The boss gives him hell when he’s mad’

Question 2

What does Candy say when he goes into Crooks’ room? (racism)

Answer 2

‘I been here a long time, an’ Crooks been here a long time. This’s the first time I ever been in his room’

Question 3

What does Crooks say when Lennie goes into his room? (racism)

Answer 3

‘I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room’

Question 4

How does Curley’s wife threaten Crooks? (racism)

Answer 4

‘I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny’

Question 5

What does Lennie say about itinerant workers? (loneliness)

Answer 5

‘Guys like us, … are the loneliest guys in the world’

Question 6

How does Curley react to hearing that George and Lennie travel together? (loneliness)

Answer 6

‘Oh, so it’s that way’

Question 7

What does Crooks say about friendship to Lennie? (loneliness)

Answer 7

‘It’s just the talking. It’s being with another guy. That’s all’

Question 8

What does George tell Lennie about them being different from the other guys? (loneliness) (the dream)

Answer 8

‘With us it ain’t like that. We got a future.’

Question 9

What does Lennie repeatedly say about their dream? (the dream)

Answer 9

‘We could live off the fatta the lan’

Question 10

What does Crooks say about the dream? (the dream)

Answer 10

‘Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land’

Question 11

What did CW says about her dream? (the dream)

Answer 11

‘I coulda made something of myself’

Question 12

What does Candy say about Curley’s Wife in relation to other men? (sexism)

Answer 12

‘she got the eye’

Question 13

What does George call CW? (sexism)

Answer 13

‘jailbait’

Question 14

What does Candy call CW after she dies? (sexism)

Answer 14

‘You God damn tramp, you done it, din’t you?’

Question 15

What does Candy say he wishes would happen when he gets old? (ageism)

Answer 15

‘I wish somebody’d shoot me if I got old an’ a c****e’

Question 16

What does Candy say will happen to him when he gets older? (ageism)

Answer 16

‘They’ll put me on the county’

Question 17

How is Candy’s dog described? (ageism)

Answer 17

‘Stinks like hell’, ‘Got no teeth, damn near blind, can’t eat’

Question 18

What does Carlson think should be done to Candy’s dog? (ageism)

Answer 18

‘Why’n’t you get Candy to shoot his old dog?’

Question 19

Where does Crooks live? (setting)

Answer 19

‘A little shed leaned off the wall of the barn’

Question 20

How does Slim greet Crooks?

Answer 20

‘Oh! Hello, Crooks. What’s a matter?’

Question 21

Who comes into Crooks’ room?

Answer 21

‘Guys don’t come into a colored man’s room very much. Nobody been here but Slim.’

Question 22

How does Slim move?

Answer 22

‘moved with great majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen’

Question 23

What status does Slim have?

Answer 23

‘the prince of the ranch’

Question 24

Did people listen to Slim?

Answer 24

‘his authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love’

Question 25

Does Slim think Lennie is mean?

Answer 25

‘He ain’t mean. I can see Lennie ain’t a bit mean’

Question 26

What does Curley say to Lennie when he laughs at him?

Answer 26

‘No big son of a bitch is going to laugh at me’

Question 27

What does Curley say after Lennie killed his wife?

Answer 27

‘I’m gonna get him. I’m going to get my shotgun.’

Question 28

Where does Carlson say Curley’s wife should go?

Answer 28

‘Why’n’t you tell her to stay the hell home where she belongs?’

Question 29

What does Curley’s wife say about loneliness?

Answer 29

‘I never get to talk to no one, I get awful lonely’

Question 30

What book does Crooks have in his room?

Answer 30

‘Single barrelled shotgun … mauled copy of California civil code for 1905’