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Of Mice and Men Study Guide
Multiple choice
1. When George sends Lennie for firewood…
2. The clearing by the river is described by John Steinbeck as…
3. Crooks, the stable-buck, is best described as…
4. Crooks’ quarters are in the barn because he’s…
5. Curley picks on men who are…
6. If Lennie gets in trouble, George wants him to…
7. The dream of the ranch comes to be represented by Lennie’s hope of tending…
8. The body of Curley’s wife is first discovered by…
9. Curley’s wife dreams of being a…
10. George can’t trust Lennie to carry his own…
11. The first of the ranch hands to join George and Lennie in the pursuit of their dream is…
12. George kills Lennie with a gun that had belonged to…
13. George briefly gives in to the suspicion that Curley’s wife is having an affair with…
14. George feels that he and Lennie are different from the other ranch hands in that they have each other and…
15. George confesses that his pranks almost caused Lennie to…
Match the person in the story to the characteristic
____ 1. the jerkline skinner
____ 2. the vengeance-seeker in the novel’s final pages
____ 3. a simple-minded man who doesn’t know his own strength
____ 4. has a bunk in the harness room in the barn
____ 5. took on the responsibility of caring for Lennie from Aunt Clara
____ 6. a former boxer
____ 7. “the prince of the ranch”
____ 8. promised a career in motion pictures
____ 9. tells Candy that his dog is feeble and foul-smelling
____ 10. likes to pet soft things
____ 11. taunts Lennie with the idea that George may not return from town
____ 12. puts up $350 to help George and Lennie get the farm
____ 13. touched a girl’s red dress in Weed
____ 14. met Curley at the Riverside Dance Palace
____ 15. confides in Slim about what happened in Weed
Short answer
1. Why do George and Lennie travel together?
2. What indications are there that Lennie doesn’t know his own strength?
3. List the settings for the novel’s scenes.
4.
Multiple choice
1. When George sends Lennie for firewood…
2. The clearing by the river is described by John Steinbeck as…
3. Crooks, the stable-buck, is best described as…
4. Crooks’ quarters are in the barn because he’s…
5. Curley picks on men who are…
6. If Lennie gets in trouble, George wants him to…
7. The dream of the ranch comes to be represented by Lennie’s hope of tending…
8. The body of Curley’s wife is first discovered by…
9. Curley’s wife dreams of being a…
10. George can’t trust Lennie to carry his own…
11. The first of the ranch hands to join George and Lennie in the pursuit of their dream is…
12. George kills Lennie with a gun that had belonged to…
13. George briefly gives in to the suspicion that Curley’s wife is having an affair with…
14. George feels that he and Lennie are different from the other ranch hands in that they have each other and…
15. George confesses that his pranks almost caused Lennie to…
Match the person in the story to the characteristic
____ 1. the jerkline skinner
____ 2. the vengeance-seeker in the novel’s final pages
____ 3. a simple-minded man who doesn’t know his own strength
____ 4. has a bunk in the harness room in the barn
____ 5. took on the responsibility of caring for Lennie from Aunt Clara
____ 6. a former boxer
____ 7. “the prince of the ranch”
____ 8. promised a career in motion pictures
____ 9. tells Candy that his dog is feeble and foul-smelling
____ 10. likes to pet soft things
____ 11. taunts Lennie with the idea that George may not return from town
____ 12. puts up $350 to help George and Lennie get the farm
____ 13. touched a girl’s red dress in Weed
____ 14. met Curley at the Riverside Dance Palace
____ 15. confides in Slim about what happened in Weed
Short answer
1. Why do George and Lennie travel together?
2. What indications are there that Lennie doesn’t know his own strength?
3. List the settings for the novel’s scenes.
4.