Of Mice and Men Review

Question 1

Of Mice and Men is set in which decade?

Answer 1

1930s

Question 2

In which state is the story set?

Answer 2

California

Question 3

Why does Carlson want to shoot Candy’s dog?

Answer 3

The dog is too old to be of any use and it stinks up the room

Question 4

From whom does Candy seek advice before allowing Carlson to shoot his dog?

Answer 4

Slim

Question 5

How did Crooks get his name?

Answer 5

He has a crooked back

Question 6

Disappointed with her life, Curley’s wife wonders where she would be if she had become…

Answer 6

an actress.

Question 7

George and Lennie are different from the other men

Answer 7

because they look out for each other.

Question 8

In the power structure of the ranch, which character has the least amount of power?

Answer 8

Crooks

Question 9

When Steinbeck tells us that Lennie likes to pet soft things, which literary technique is he using?

Answer 9

Foreshadowing

Question 10

After killing Curley’s wife, which pair of figures appear and scold Lennie?

Answer 10

Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit

Question 11

Which character checks the dead body of Curley’s wife for vital signs?

Answer 11

Slim

Question 12

Before George meets Lennie in the woods in the final scene, whose gun does he take?

Answer 12

Carlson’s

Question 13

The structure of the novel most resembles a

Answer 13

Play

Question 14

“Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.”

Answer 14

George

Question 15

“I ought to of shot that dog myself.”

Answer 15

Candy

Question 16

“We could live offa the fatta the lan’.”

Answer 16

Lennie

Question 17

“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya, a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.”

Answer 17

Crooks

Question 18

“If I catch any one man, and he’s alone, I get along fine with him. But just let two of the guys get together an’ you won’t talk. Just nothing but mad.”

Answer 18

Curley’s Wife

Question 19

“Bus driver give us a bum steer…we hadda walk ten miles.”

Answer 19

George

Question 20

“What the hell you laughin’ at?”

Answer 20

Curley

Question 21

“You hadda, George. I swear, you hadda.”

Answer 21

Slim

Question 22

“But not us! An’ why? Because…I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why!”

Answer 22

Lennie

Question 23

“Everybody wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their heads. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their heads.”

Answer 23

Crooks

Question 23

“I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much I got to thinking maybe we would.”

Answer 23

George

Question 24

Whose dog is shot and killed?

Answer 24

Candy’s

Question 25

Who breaks Curley’s hand?

Answer 25

Lennie

Question 26

Who does the bus driver lie to?

Answer 26

George and Lennie

Question 27

Lennie accidentally kills his what?

Answer 27

puppy

Question 28

Lennie has how many hallucinations?

Answer 28

Two

Question 29

Lennie scares the girl in the red dress in which town?

Answer 29

Weed

Question 30

Of Mice and Men was first published in which year?

Answer 30

1937

Question 30

Curley keeps Vaseline in one of his gloves to...

Answer 30

keep his hand soft for his wife

Question 31

A “cathouse” is another term for a what?

Answer 31

“whorehouse” or “brothel”

Question 32

Who is the first person to discover the dead body of Curley’s wife?

Answer 32

Candy

Question 33

Will Candy still go and buy the small farm on his own?

Answer 33

No, he cannot afford it by himself.

Question 34

While Candy announces the death of Curley’s wife, George goes to the ranch house and steals whose gun?

Answer 34

Carlson's

Question 34

Whit reads aloud a letter to the editor who wrote that was published in a Western magazine?

Answer 34

William Tanner

Question 35

Curley wears what to show that he has more power than the regular working men on the ranch?

Answer 35

high-heeled boots

Question 36

Curley’s wife invites Lennie to do what?

Answer 36

touch her hair

Question 37

Before shooting Lennie, what does George tell Lennie?

Answer 37

That he’s sorry and that he was never really mad at Lennie.

Question 38

Lennie likes what on his beans?

Answer 38

ketchup

Question 39

Lennie is described as what three animals?

Answer 39

a terrier, a bull, a horse, and a bear

Question 40

George’s last name is what?

Answer 40

Milton

Question 41

Lennie’s last name is what?

Answer 41

Small

Question 42

Crooks changes his mind about joining the dream farm when what happens?

Answer 42

When Curley's wife shows her racism demonstrating that he will still be treated poorly outside the farm

Question 43

Who gave Lennie the rubber mouse that he didn't like because it wasn’t soft, like a real mouse.

Answer 43

Aunt Clara

Question 44

Who was given $250 after his hand was mangled in a piece of farm equipment?

Answer 44

Candy

Question 45

George and Lennie spent a total of how many days on the ranch?

Answer 45

four

Question 46

What two items could be seen as symbols of Crooks loneliness?

Answer 46

His alarm clock and his single-barreled shotgun

Question 46

Author John Steinbeck uses this story to examine what themes?

Answer 46

The predatory nature of humanity and the impossibility of the American Dream.