Of Mice and Men - Section 4

Question 1

Who has their bunk in the harness room?

Answer 1

Crooks.

Question 2

What are some of the personal possessions in Crooks’ room?

Answer 2

“several pairs of shoes”, “books”, “a tattered dictionary”, “battered magazines”, “a pair of large gold-rimmed spectacles.”

Question 3

Steinbeck tells us Crooks’ room is fairly neat - why?

Answer 3

Because Crooks is a “proud, aloof man”

Question 4

“He kept his distance and demanded other people kept theirs.” Who is being described?

Answer 4

Crooks.

Question 5

“His eyes…seemed to glitter with intensity.” Whose eyes are being described?

Answer 5

Crooks.

Question 6

Who goes to visit Crooks’ bunk first, and why?

Answer 6

Lennie, because he saw the light and wanted to look at his puppy. George has gone into town with the other workers.

Question 7

What is Crooks’ initial reaction to Lennie’s visit?

Answer 7

“You got no right to come in my room. This here’s my room.”

Question 8

“They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me.” Who says this?

Answer 8

Crooks.

Question 9

“Sometimes he talks, and you don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. Ain’t that so?” Who is speaking, and what are they speaking about?

Answer 9

Crooks is talking about George and Lennie’s relationship.

Question 10

“If I say something, why it’s just a ___________.” What does Crooks say here?

Answer 10

“just a nigger saying it.”

Question 11

“S’pose George don’t come back no more.” Who suggests this to Lennie?

Answer 11

Crooks.

Question 12

“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t go nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long he’s with you.” Who says this?

Answer 12

Crooks.

Question 13

What has everyone got in their head according to Crooks?

Answer 13

“a little piece of land.”

Question 14

“Nobody ever gets to _________ and nobody ever gets no _________”. Complete Crooks’ quotation about the dream.

Answer 14

“Nobody ever gets to Heaven, and nobody ever gets no land.”

Question 15

Who joins Crooks and Lennie in the stables?

Answer 15

Candy.

Question 16

“You’ll talk about it a hell of a lot, but you won’t get no land.” Who dismisses the dream in this way?

Answer 16

Crooks.

Question 17

Despite his initial scepticism, what does Crooks offer when he hears about Candy’s money?

Answer 17

To work on the farm for George and Lennie.

Question 18

Who interrupts the discussion of the dream between Crooks, Candy and Lennie?

Answer 18

Curley’s Wife.

Question 19

“They left all the weak ones here.” Who says this about the gathering in Crooks’ room?

Answer 19

Curley’s Wife.

Question 20

“You’re all scared of each other, that’s what. Every one of you’s scared the rest is going to get something on you.” Who says this?

Answer 20

Curley’s Wife.

Question 21

“You all seen him. Swell guy, ain’t he?” Who is Curley’s Wife talking about here?

Answer 21

Curley (sarcastically)

Question 22

What does Candy tell Curley’s Wife about Curley’s hand?

Answer 22

That it got “caught in a machine.”

Question 23

“I tell ya I could of went with shows.” Who says this?

Answer 23

Curley’s Wife.

Question 24

“Standin’ here talking to a ____ and a ____ and a _____, an’ liking it cause their ain’t nobody else.” How does Curley’s Wife describe Crooks, Lennie and Candy?

Answer 24

A nigger, a dum-dum and a lousy old sheep.

Question 25

Who gets angry and asks Curley’s Wife to leave?

Answer 25

Candy.

Question 26

“If you had two bits in the world you’d be getting two shots of corn with it and sucking the bottom of the glass.” Who else dismisses the dream in this section?

Answer 26

Curley’s Wife.

Question 27

How does Lennie respond when Curley’s Wife asks him how he got the bruises on his face?

Answer 27

“He got his hand caught in a machine.”

Question 28

“Listen Nigger,” she said, “You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?” What is Curley’s Wife threatening Crooks with?

Answer 28

An accusation that would likely result in his lynching.

Question 29

“____ had reduced himself to nothing.” Who has done this, and why?

Answer 29

Crooks, because of the threats of being “strung up on a tree” from Curley’s Wife.

Question 30

How does Crooks address Curley’s Wife after she threatens to get him “strung up on a tree”?

Answer 30

“Ma’am”

Question 31

“It doesn’t matter. You guys comin’ and settin’ made me forget. What she says is true.” Who says this after Curley’s Wife leaves?

Answer 31

Crooks.

Question 32

What does Crooks withdraw at the end of the section?

Answer 32

His offer to work for George and Lennie.