OMM Jeopardy Characters Quotes Lit. Terms Events & characters History Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Characters This character killed Candy’s Dog
$100 Answer from Characters Carlson
$200 Question from Characters The “stable buck” or stable man on the ranch.
$200 Answer from Characters Crooks
$300 Question from Characters This character is the “old swamper.”
$300 Answer from Characters Who is Candy
$400 Question from Characters This character is a skinner; reasonable; understands Lenny & George.
$400 Answer from Characters Who is Slim?
$500 Question from Characters Hot-tempered son of the boss, whose hand was crushed by Lennie.
$500 Answer from Characters Curley
$100 Question from Quotes Character is described in the following passage: “I don’t like this place George. This ain’t no good place. I wanna get outta here.”
$100 Answer from Quotes Lennie
$200 Question from Quotes Character says the following: “I’m looking for Curly.”
$200 Answer from Quotes Curley’s Wife
$300 Question from Quotes This character says, “Never you mind,” he said. “A guy got to sometime.”
$300 Answer from Quotes Slim
$400 Question from Quotes This character says, “ I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t of let no stranger shoot my dog.”
$400 Answer from Quotes Candy
$500 Question from Quotes Who is this character: “For a moment he seemed bewildered. And then he whispered in fright, ‘I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing.’”
$500 Answer from Quotes Lennie
$100 Question from Quotes “You guys comin in and settin’ made me forget. What she says is true.”
$100 Answer from Quotes Crooks
$200 Question from Lit. Terms Conflict that occurs between characters. For example, this occurs between Lenny and Curley.
$200 Answer from Lit. Terms External Conflict
$300 Question from Lit. Terms The attitude toward the writing. In OMM, it would be sympathetic yet realistic.
$300 Answer from Lit. Terms Tone
$300 Answer from Lit. Terms The author provides hints of future events in the story. For example, the killing of the mouse, and the puppy.
$300 Answer from Lit. Terms Foreshadowing
$400 Question from Lit. Terms The literary device that is demonstrated in the following passage: “Then gradually time awakened again and moved sluggishly on.”
$400 Answer from Lit. Terms P ersonification
$500 Question from Lit. Terms What type of conflict is this: Candy is troubled over whether or not to have his dog killed. Later he says that he should have done it himself.
$500 Answer from Lit. Terms Internal conflict
$100 Question from Characters & Events What does Slim have that Lennie wants?
$100 Answer from Characters & Events Puppies
$200 Question from Characters & Events What does George say he could do if he were alone?
$200 Answer from Characters & Events Drink whiskey all night, play cards at a pool hall all night, go to a “cat house.”
$300 Question from Characters & Events Why did Curley fight with Lennie?
$300 Answer from Characters & Events Curley thought Lennie was laughing at him
$400 Question from Characters & Events How does Lennie drink from the pool the second time he arrives?
$400 Answer from Characters & Events This time, he remembers to use his tin cup
$500 Question from Characters & Events Where is the setting of the story? (Hint: its Steinbeck’s home town)
$500 Answer from Events & Characters Salinas, CA
$100 Question from History What decade was the story set in?
$100 Answer from History 1930’s
$200 Question from History Who was the President during this time period?
$200 Answer from History President Franklin Roosevelt
$300 Question from History What was the biggest economic problem in this time period?
$300 Answer from History The Great Depression -1929
$400 Question from History Why were people migrating from East to West in America during the 1930’s?
$400 Answer from History -“The Dust Bowl” – drought -In search of work -Economic downfall
$500 Question from History What was the name of the President’s famous social program? Name the “3 R’s.”
$500 Answer from History The New Deal: Relief, Recovery, & Reform
Final Jeopardy What are the 2 types of discrimination that occurs in the book? One arose in the early 1900’s.
Final Jeopardy Answer 1. Discrimination of Migrant workers (George & Lennie) 2. Racial discrimination (Crooks)
More Lit Terms for Bonus Points…300 A verbal or situational context involving outcomes that are either unexpected, unanticipated or the opposite of what they should be. Example: Lenny’s last name is “Small,” yet his physique is the opposite. The only small thing about him is his childlike mind…
Answer for 300 pts Irony
Bonus Points: 100 What is the relationship between the protagonist and the antagonist?
Bonus Points answer: 100 The protagonist is the The antagonist… T