Quotes

Question 1

Candy’s description of Crooks

Answer 1

“Nice fella too…The Boss gives him hell…He reads a lot”

Question 2

Crooks’s physical appearance

Answer 2

“His eyes seemed to glitter with intensity… he had thin, pain tightened lips”

Question 3

Evidence of racial prejudice towards Crooks

Answer 3

“I ain’t wanted in the bunk house… ‘Cause I’m black”

Question 4

What Crooks says to Curley’s Wife as proof of his pride and independence

Answer 4

“You got no right comin’ in a coloured man’s room”

Question 5

Evidence of how little power Crooks actually has, and shows that he has learned how to deal with prejudice

Answer 5

“Crooks had reduced himself to nothing”

Question 6

Describes Crook’s face when taunting Lennie

Answer 6

“lighted up with pleasure”

Question 7

The word that describes how Crooks recalled being attacked at Christmas last year, when he was let into the bunk house for some Whisky

Answer 7

“relish”

Question 8

First description of George

Answer 8

“small and quick” with “sharp features”

Question 9

George’s advice to Lennie about Curley

Answer 9

“You keep away from Curley”

Question 10

What George tells Lennie when Curley is hitting him

Answer 10

“Get ‘im Lennie”

Question 11

What Slim says to George about Lennie and George’s response

Answer 11

Slim: “That ain’t no good, George” George: “I know, I know”

Question 12

Words used by other characters to describe how stupid Lennie is

Answer 12

George: “dumb as hell” CW: “dum-dum” Slim: “cuckoo”

Question 13

Initial description of Lennie

Answer 13

“Huge man, shapeless of face… and he walked…the way a bear drags his paws”

Question 14

How Lennie asks George to recite their dream

Answer 14

“Come on George. Tell me. Please, George”

Question 15

What George says about Lennie’s working abilities

Answer 15

[Lennie] can put up more grain alone than most pairs can”

Question 16

Evidence of Lennie’s innocence

Answer 16

“I didn’t want no trouble”

Question 17

Evidence that Lennie cannot control himself, and bases right and wrong on what George thinks

Answer 17

“I done a real bad thing”

Question 18

Animals Lennie is compared to

Answer 18

Bear (paws)
“snorting into the water like a horse”
Drools over beautiful woman, can’t control animal instincts
Very possessive over his soft pets
Candy walks into the bunk house followed by his struggling dog. This is similar to how George and Lennie first appear
“Strong as a bull”

Question 19

How Candy explains Curley’s Small Man Syndrome

Answer 19

“He hates big guys…Kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t a big guy”

Question 20

What Candy says about Curley’s glove

Answer 20

“Curley says he’s keeping that hand soft for his wife”

Question 21

What CW tells Lennie about Curley

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Words to describe Curley’s nature

Answer 22

“handy” and “pugnacious”

Question 23

Evidence of the idea that Curley’s Wife is dangerous from her first appearance

Answer 23

“the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off”

Question 24

Initial description of Curley’s Wife

Answer 24

She was “heavily made up” and “Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages”

Question 25

Evidence of how the people CW’s lived with have made her vindictive

Answer 25

“You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?”

Question 26

Curley’s Wife’s lost dream

Answer 26

“He says he was gonna put me in the movies”

Question 27

Description of Curley’s Wife when she’s dead

Answer 27

“She was pretty and simple”

Question 28

Carlson’s stance on Candy’s dog

Answer 28

“ain’t nothing left for him”

Question 29

The last line of the novella, spoken by Carlson

Answer 29

“Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?”

Question 30

Carlson turning on Curley before the fight

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Carlson’s threat to Curley

Answer 31

“I’ll kick your God damn head off”

Question 32

Description of Whit, implying he is perhaps doomed to follow in Candy’s footsteps

Answer 32

Shoulders sloped like he is “carrying an invisible grain bag”

Question 33

Whit excited about the Letter in the magazine

Answer 33

“I wonder if Bill seen it”

Question 34

Slim’s description

Answer 34

“godlike” and “moved with majesty”

Question 35

Slim’s natural authority

Answer 35

“The prince of the ranch”

Question 36

Slim’s social awareness

Answer 36

“understanding beyond thought”

Question 37

Evidence of how respected Slim is

Answer 37

“all talk stopped when he spoke”

Question 38

Description of Slim’s hands

Answer 38

“His hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer”

Question 39

Evidence of Slim’s practicality

Answer 39

He drowned four of his dog’s weakest puppies because it couldn’t feed all of them. Reflects how the weak are disregarded in 1930s America

Question 40

What Candy says when he realises CW was not actually horrible

Answer 40

“Poor bastard”

Question 41

Candy joining George and Lennie in their dream

Answer 41

“I’d make a will an’ leave my share to you guys”

Question 42

Candy after his dog was shot. Possible reason why George wanted to shoot Lennie himself

Answer 42

“Candy lay still, staring at the Ceiling”

Question 43

Candy quote that shows he is doomed

Answer 43

“When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me”