Of Mice and Men Plot recall Quiz

Of Mice and Men Plot recall questions

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

1. Why are George and Lennie walking to the ranch rather than arriving at its gate?
   They wanted to reach it before the boss woke · The bus driver dropped them far short of it · They spent their fare in town the night before · They were put off the last bus for fighting
2. What happened at the men's last job, in Weed, that forced them to run?
   Lennie turned a team of horses loose at night · Lennie struck a foreman who had shouted at him · Lennie took hold of a girl's dress and she cried out · George was caught gambling away the crew's pay
3. What is Candy's work on the ranch?
   Loader, bucking sacks of barley · Stable buck, tending the harnesses · Swamper, sweeping out the bunkhouse · Skinner, driving a team of mules
4. According to Candy, why does Curley wear a glove on one hand?
   He hides a scar from a prize fight · He was burned handling a branding iron · He broke two fingers roping a steer · He keeps the hand soft for his wife
5. How does Candy's old dog die?
   Candy leads it out to the barn himself · Slim drowns it in the river with the pups · Curley has one of the hands drive it off · Carlson shoots it outside with his pistol
6. Who overhears George describing the farm and asks to buy a share in it?
   Candy · Crooks · Whit · Carlson
7. 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
8. What has happened to the puppy Lennie is holding when the chapter opens?
   Slim has taken it back from him for good · He has killed it by handling it too hard · It has been crushed by one of the mules · It was drowned with the rest of the litter
9. What does Candy ask George once the two of them have found her in the barn?
   Whether they can still buy the little farm · Whether Curley will turn them off the ranch · Whether Lennie could be hidden till dark · Whether the other men need be told at all
10. 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
11. Where and when is the novella set?
    The Oklahoma dust bowl before the war · California during the gold rush years · A Kansas wheat farm in the 1870s · Depression-era California ranch country
12. Whose pistol is used for both killings in the book?
    The boss's · Curley's · Slim's · Carlson's

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