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6. Page 3 quote - "Lennie, for God' sakes don't drink

so much… You gonna be sick like you was last
night… You never oughta drink water when it ain't
running, Lennie." What does this show the reader?
a) George has to fill in for Lennie’s lack of self control
b) George has to fill in for Lennie’s lack of wisdom
c) all of the above
d) none of the above

7. Which of the following best matches the meaning

of the word morosely as it is used on page 4?
a) gloomily, moodily
1. Each of the following is an accurate detail
b) thoughtfully, reflectively
regarding the setting of the story from the opening
c) joyfully, happily
paragraph of chapter 1, EXCEPT ONE. Which one is
d) eagerly
it?
a) near the Salinas river b) during the 1950s
8. Why does George refer to the bus driver as “lazy”,
c) near Soledad d) near the Gabilan mountains
and a “bastard”?
a) because he told them the ranch wasn’t far away
2. Each of the following is a type of animal
b) because he dropped them off almost four miles from
mentioned in the opening paragraph, EXCEPT ONE.
the ranch
Which one is it?
c) because he lied to them
a) snakes b) deer
d) all of the above
c) dogs d) rabbits

9. What does George say is the only thing Lennie

3. Each of the following is an accurate detail
can remember?
describing George on page 2, EXCEPT ONE. Which
a) supper time b) ketchup
one is it?
c) mice d) about the rabbits
a) he has a thin and bony nose b) dark of face
c) he has large, pale eyes d) he has slender arms
10. “Murray and Ready’s” is most likely a…?
a) employment agency
4. Each of the following is an accurate detail
b) a general store
describing Lennie on page 2, EXCEPT ONE. Which
c) a bus station
one is it?
d) a ranch
a) strong hands b) wide, sloping shoulders
c) walks like a bear d) a shapeless face
11. What is George carrying for Lennie?
a) a bindle
5. Page 3 quote - Lennie “dropped his blankets and
b) a mouse
flung himself down and drank from the surface of
c) a bottle of ketchup
the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into
d) his work card
the water like a horse.” What does this description
show the reader?
12. Why does Lennie carry a dead mouse in his
a) the similarity between human behaviour and animal
pocket?
behaviour
a) so he could bury it later
b) that Lennie lacks self-control
b) to pet while he walks
c) that Lennie lacks wisdom
c) so he could eat it later
d) all of the above
d) all of the above
13. Why does George tell Lennie not to speak when 20. Why does George “explode” in anger at Lennie
they see the boss? on page 11?
a) so the boss won’t notice that Lennie is mentally a) because of what Lennie did in Weed
challenged b) because Lennie did not want beans for supper
b) so they’ll be more likely to get the job c) because Lennie refused to give up the mouse
c) all of the above d) because Lennie kept asking for ketchup
d) none of the above
21. Each of the following is something George says
14. Each of the following is a detail about the town of he could do with his fifty bucks if he wasn’t stuck
Weed on page 7, EXCEPT ONE. Which one is it? with Lennie, EXCEPT ONE. Which one is it?
a) George and Lennie had been working there a) stay in a cat house all night
b) George did something bad there b) eat at a hotel
c) Men were looking for them in Weed c) get married
d) George and Lennie had to escape from Weed d) get a gallon of whiskey

15. On page 7, whose head was help up “like a little 22. Each of the following is an additional detail the
periscope?” reader learns about the incident in Weed, EXCEPT
a) a stilted heron’s ONE. Which one is it?
b) George’s a) Lennie wanted to feel a girl’s dress
c) a water snake’s b) the girl tried to get away but Lennie held on to her
d) Lennie’s dress
c) Lennie hurt the girl physically
16. Why does Lennie wade across the river by d) George and Lennie had to hide in an irrigation ditch
himself?
a) to get firewood 23. Each of the following is something Lennie says
b) to get his dead mouse back about going to live in a cave, EXCEPT ONE. Which
c) to find a cave to live in one is it?
d) all of the above a) he would find his own things to eat
b) he would get to have ketchup
17. Which of the following best matches the meaning c) nobody would hurt him
of the word imperiously as it is used on page 9? d) nobody would take his mice away
a) assuming power or authority
b) helpfully 24. Each of the following is a detail about George
c) with compassion and understanding and Lennie’s dream of having their own place,
d) with hatred EXCEPT ONE. Which one is it?
a) they can already afford it
18. Why does Lennie behave “like a terrier who b) they’re going to have a little house and a couple of
doesn't want to bring a ball to its master”? acres
a) he doesn’t want to spend the night in the woods c) they’re going to live off “the fat of the land”
b) he doesn’t want beans for supper d) Lennie will tend the rabbits
c) he doesn’t want to collect firewood
d) he doesn’t want to give his mouse to George 25. For what reason would Lennie have to hide in the
brush until George comes for him?
19. Why did Aunt Clara stop giving Lennie mice? a) if he gets hungry
a) because he kept killing them b) if he gets fired
b) because she died c) if he gets lost
c) because she got sick d) if he gets in any trouble on the ranch
d) because she ran out