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What Happened?
Thematically Speaking
What was and what is
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Braving the Elements
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2. ?
Who shot Candy’s dog?
Answer: Carlson

3. ?
What happened between Lennie and Curley?
Answer: A fight

4. ?
What does Crooks do most of the time?
Answer: Read books

5. Answer: Lennie breaks her neck?
What happens to Curley’s wife?
Answer: Lennie breaks her neck

6. ?
Who do all the ranch workers respect the most?
Answer: Slim

7. Answer: Failure of the American Dream?
“Livin’ off the fatta the lan’’” and
Lennie dies
Answer: Failure of the American Dream

8. Friendship vs. Loneliness?
“A guy needs someone to talk to”
Answer:
Friendship vs. Loneliness

9. Answer: Inhumanity towards fellow man?
“What the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?”
Answer: Inhumanity towards fellow man

10. Answer: Failure of the American Dream?
“We’ll get a place and you can tend the rabbits.”
Lennie breaks Curley’s wife’s neck
Answer: Failure of the American Dream

11. Answer: Friendship vs. Loneliness
“Cuz you got me and I got you, George. We’re always lookin’ out for each other.” ?
Answer: Friendship vs. Loneliness

12. Answer: John Steinbeck?
The author of Of Mice and Men
Answer: John Steinbeck

13. ?
Who is the stable buck on the ranch
Answer: Crooks

14. Who gets his hand crushed by Lennie?
Answer: Curley

15. ?
Who doesn’t have a right hand?
Answer: Candy

16. ?
Who nearly drowned to death because he was told to jump into a river?
Answer: Lennie

17. Answer: Great Depression?
What financial crisis happened in America that influenced John Steinbeck?
Answer: Great Depression

18. Answer: Salinas Valley, CA, 1930s?
What is the setting of our story?
Answer: Salinas Valley, CA, 1930s

19. ?
Where did George and Lennie find work?
Answer: On a ranch

20. Answer: Lennie was accused of rape/held onto a girl’s dress too long?
What happened in Weed?
Answer: Lennie was accused of rape/held onto a girl’s dress too long

22. ? What foreshadows Curley’s wife’s death?
What symbolizes Curley’s wife?
Answer: Lennie breaking the cats’ necks
The cats

23. ?
The impossibility of the American dream; Friendship vs. Loneliness; Inhumanity towards fellow man
Answer: Theme

24. ?
Their farm represents George and Lennie’s
dream
Answer: Symbolism

25. Answer: Foreshadowing?
Shooting of Candy’s dog hints at Lennie’s death
Answer: Foreshadowing

26. ? Answer: Conflict/Man vs. Himself
Lennie vs. trying not to make his own mistakes
Answer: Conflict/Man vs. Himself

27. ?
“Come boy. C’mon boy. He won’t even feel it.”
Answer: Carlson

28. ?
“Slim, will we get canned now? We need the stake. Will Curley’s old man can us now?”
Answer: George

29. ?
“Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes--all them nice clothes like they wear.”
Answer: Curley’s wife

30. ?
“Ain’t you going to give me more hell?”
Answer: Lennie

31. ?
“Come on ya big bastard. Get up on your feet!”
Answer: Curley

32. ? “I tell ya, a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.”
Answer: Crooks

33. ?
“We ain’t got no ketchup! Whatever you want we don’t got?”
Answer: George