Of Mice and Men Chapter 6 Quiz

Of Mice and Men Chapter 6 questions

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

1. Why does the last chapter return to the pool by the river where the book began?
   It is the one place Curley will not search · It shows how far the men have travelled · It shuts the story in the place it opened · It is where the farm's land was to be bought
2. What appears to Lennie while he waits in the brush?
   George, telling him the farm has been bought · Curley's wife, asking him to stroke her hair · His mother and the dog he had as a boy · His aunt and a huge rabbit, both scolding him
3. What does George choose to talk about in Lennie's last moments?
   The farm and the rabbits Lennie would keep · The trouble they had to leave behind in Weed · The work waiting at the next ranch they find · The mice Lennie used to carry in his pocket
4. Why does Slim lead George away afterwards, telling him he had no choice?
   He thinks George shot Lennie in self-defence · He sees that the other choices were worse · He wants George gone before the law comes · He believes Curley will now be satisfied
5. A heron at the pool spears a water snake as the chapter opens, then stands waiting for the next. What is the effect?
   It shows how long Lennie has been waiting · It marks the river as a place of safety · It makes the coming death part of nature · It warns the reader that Curley is close

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