Thematically Speaking What Happened? Thematically Speaking What was and what is Hodge- podge Braving the Elements Who Said It? 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500 JEOPARDY!
? Who shot Candy’s dog? Answer: Carlson
? What happened between Lennie and Curley? Answer: A fight
? What does Crooks do most of the time? Answer: Read books
Answer: Lennie breaks her neck ? What happens to Curley’s wife? Answer: Lennie breaks her neck
? Who do all the ranch workers respect the most? Answer: Slim
Answer: Failure of the American Dream ? “Livin’ off the fatta the lan’’” and Lennie dies Answer: Failure of the American Dream
Friendship vs. Loneliness ? “A guy needs someone to talk to” Answer: Friendship vs. Loneliness
Answer: Inhumanity towards fellow man ? “What the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?” Answer: Inhumanity towards fellow man
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
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
Answer: John Steinbeck ? The author of Of Mice and Men Answer: John Steinbeck
? Who is the stable buck on the ranch Answer: Crooks
Who gets his hand crushed by Lennie? Answer: Curley
? Who doesn’t have a right hand? Answer: Candy
? Who nearly drowned to death because he was told to jump into a river? Answer: Lennie
Answer: Great Depression ? What financial crisis happened in America that influenced John Steinbeck? Answer: Great Depression
Answer: Salinas Valley, CA, 1930s ? What is the setting of our story? Answer: Salinas Valley, CA, 1930s
? Where did George and Lennie find work? Answer: On a ranch
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
? What foreshadows Curley’s wife’s death? What symbolizes Curley’s wife? Answer: Lennie breaking the cats’ necks The cats
? The impossibility of the American dream; Friendship vs. Loneliness; Inhumanity towards fellow man Answer: Theme
? Their farm represents George and Lennie’s dream Answer: Symbolism
Answer: Foreshadowing ? Shooting of Candy’s dog hints at Lennie’s death Answer: Foreshadowing
? Answer: Conflict/Man vs. Himself Lennie vs. trying not to make his own mistakes Answer: Conflict/Man vs. Himself
? “Come boy. C’mon boy. He won’t even feel it.” Answer: Carlson
? “Slim, will we get canned now? We need the stake. Will Curley’s old man can us now?” Answer: George
? “Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes--all them nice clothes like they wear.” Answer: Curley’s wife
? “Ain’t you going to give me more hell?” Answer: Lennie
? “Come on ya big bastard. Get up on your feet!” Answer: Curley
? “I tell ya, a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.” Answer: Crooks
? “We ain’t got no ketchup! Whatever you want we don’t got?” Answer: George