Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 Quiz

Of Mice and Men Chapter 4 questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. Where does Crooks sleep, and why apart from the other men?
   In the harness room, because he is black · In the bunkhouse corner, because of his back · In the barn loft, because he keeps late hours · In the cookhouse, because he mixes the feed
2. Crooks keeps a few books in his room, among them a battered volume of state law. What does this suggest?
   He is studying to leave ranch work behind · He knows rights the ranch will not grant him · He takes the books from the boss's office · He reads only to pass the Sunday evenings
3. Why does Crooks keep suggesting to Lennie that George might not come back from town?
   Because the other hands had told him so in fun · To frighten Lennie out of the harness room · To make Lennie feel the loneliness he lives with · Because he has seen George pack his few things
4. Crooks asks whether he might come and hoe in the garden on the farm, then takes the request back. What does the turn show?
   He would rather stay where he is warm · He has been promised work by the boss · He never believed Candy had any money · Hope is unsafe for a man in his place
5. What does Curley's wife do when Crooks tells her to leave his room?
   Reminds him how easily she could ruin him · Laughs and asks Lennie to walk her out · Threatens to have Candy put off the ranch · Goes to fetch Curley to settle the matter

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Original questions written for Pagine. This book is in copyright, so questions paraphrase rather than quote it.