OMAM quotes/themes

Question 1

The power George wields over Lennie:

Answer 1

‘“Give it here!” Lennie’s closed hand slowly obeyed’

Question 2

George deluding himself about a better life:

Answer 2

‘“God a’mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.’”

Question 3

George caring about Lennie’s feeling:

Answer 3

‘He looked across the fire at Lennie’s anguished face, and then he looked ashamedly at the flames.’

Question 4

The power the American Dream holds over them:

Answer 4

‘He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before.’

Question 5

Their ultimate dream:

Answer 5

“An’ live off the fatta the lan”

Question 6

Lennie and George as parent and child:

Answer 6

‘“Good boy! That’s fine, Lennie! [..] Lennie choked with pride.

Question 7

Bunkhouse having no care put into it:

Answer 7

‘Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted.’

Question 8

Bunkhouse resembling a prison:

Answer 8

‘the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows”

Question 9

Candy having a disability:

Answer 9

‘He pointed with his right arm, and out of the sleeve came a round stick-like wrist, but no hand.’

Question 10

Lennie needing George for assistance:

Answer 10

‘In a panic, Lennie looked at George for help’

Question 11

The rarity of friendship on the ranch:

Answer 11

‘“Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy.”

Question 12

Candy’s age as a handicap embodied by his dog

Answer 12

‘At his heels there walked a drag footed sheep dog, gray of muzzle, and with pale blind, old eyes.’

Question 13

The solitariness of the ranch:

Answer 13

“‘A guy on a ranch don’t never listen nor he don’t ask no questions.”

Question 14

Slurs labelled at Curley’s wife to indicate the threat she poses:

Answer 14

‘a tart’; ‘what a tramp’; ‘that bitch’; ‘jailbait’; ‘poison’ ‘rattrap’

Question 15

Curley’s wife’s flirtatious actions

Answer 15

‘She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the doorframe so that her body was thrown forward’

Question 16

. Slim’s authority:

Answer 16

a majesty achieved only by royalty and master craftsmen…the prince of the ranch, ​

His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, ​

his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. ​

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Question 17

The consequences of loneliness/isolation:

Answer 17

“I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone.
That ain’t no good.
They don’t have no fun.
After a long time they get mean.’’

Question 18

Crooks’ lodgings symbolising the segregation at the time:

Answer 18

‘a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn.’

Question 19

Crooks relying on education to navigate racist society:

Answer 19

‘a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905.’

Question 20

Crooks being denied a voice in society:

Answer 20

‘pain-tightened lips’

Question 21

Racism being the sole reason for why Crooks isn’t wanted:

Answer 21

“Cause I’m black.”

Question 22

Crooks not naturally aloof:

Answer 22

Crooks scowled, but Lennie’s disarming smile defeated him

Question 23

What would happen to Lennie without George to protect him:

Answer 23

‘“They’ll take ya to the booby hatch. They’ll tie ya up with a collar, like a dog.’”

Question 24

. The importance of companionship:

Answer 24

“‘A guy needs somebody to be- to be near him.” he whined, “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got
nobody.”

Question 25

Reminder that women were above black people in society:

Answer 25

'’You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?” Crooks stared hopelessly at her, and
then he sat down at the bunk and drew into himself.’

Question 26

The setting of the brush​:

Answer 26

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas river … runs deep and green

The rabbits hurried noiselessly for cover.​

A water snake slipped along on the pool​

Question 27

The bunkhouse:

Answer 27

In three walls there were small, square windows, and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch.​

Question 28

​Lennie’s physical shape:

Answer 28

a huge man, shapeless of face,

Question 29

Lennie’s movement:

Answer 29

walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws.​

snorting into the water like a horse​

Question 30

Lennie’s problems/ mental capacity​:

Answer 30

“They was so little,​

“I forgot,” Lennie said softly. “I tried not to forget”​

Just wanted to feel that girl’s dress​

Lennie droned to himself softly, ‘I ain’t gonna say nothin’.’​

Question 31

George’s frustration/ temper​:

Answer 31

Think I’d let you carry your own work card?​

if I was alone I could live so easy.​

‘God, you’re a lot of trouble.’​

Question 32

Curley’s aggression​:

Answer 32

His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hands closed into fists​

Curley lashed his body around​

His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious.​

Question 33

Curley’s wife’s attention seeking​:

Answer 33

She had full, rouged lips… Her fingernails were red…. ​​

red mules, … little bouquets of red ostrich feathers​

Question 34

Attitudes to Candy’s dog:

Answer 34

He ain’t no good to you Candy​

He was the best damn sheepdog I ever seen​
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Candy looked a long time at Slim to try to find some reversal. And Slim gave him none.​

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Question 35

Attitude to Susy’s/ the whorehouse:​

Answer 35

Hell of a nice place. Old Susy’s a laugh—always crackin’ jokes​
​
You give me a good whore house every time​

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Question 36

The beauty of the dream:

Answer 36

when the salmon run up river we could catch a hundred of ‘em​

the cream is so God damn thick you got to cut it with a knife​​

We wouldn’t have to buck no barley eleven hours a day.​​

We’d belong there​

Question 37

The attack on Curley’s hand:

Answer 37

Curley was flopping like a fish on a line​

Lennie covered his face with his huge paws and bleated with terror.​

Question 38

Crooks’ poor living conditions​:

Answer 38

a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. ..​

Crooks’ bunk was a long box filled with straw​

“They play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink.”​

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Question 39

Crooks’ attitude to isolation/ loneliness​:

Answer 39

Crooks’ face lighted with pleasure in his torture.​

“Books ain’t no good… a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.”​

“white kids come to play at our place, an’ sometimes I went to play with them, and some of them was pretty nice.”​

Question 40

Crooks’ cynicism of the dream:

Answer 40

“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.”​

Question 41

Curley’s wife’s threat to Crooks​:

Answer 41

you keep your place then, N. ​

I could get you strung upon a tree so easy it ain’t even funny​

Question 42

The effect of Curley’s wife on Crooks​:

Answer 42

Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego​

“You guys comin’ in an’ settin’ made me forget.”​