Part one answers. 1. Note down the name of the town, river and range of mountains mentioned in the first paragraph of the novel:

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1 Part one answers 1. Note down the name of the town, river and range of mountains mentioned in the first paragraph of the novel: Town: Soledad River: Salinas River Mountains: Gabilans 2. Note down three ways in which George is described: a. Small and quick b. Dark of face c. Restless eyes or strong features & others 2. Note down three ways in which Lennie is described: a. George s opposite b. Huge man c. Shapeless of face and others 3. Note down one way in which Lennie is compared to an animal: He walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags its paws (p 4) or Lennie continued to snort into the pool (p 5) or Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water (p 5). 4. Note down one way in which George takes care of Lennie. George tells Lennie not to drink so much water, because he might be sick like he was the previous night (p 5). 5. Write a brief summary of George and Lennie s dream. George tells Lennie that they are going to get enough money together to get a little house and couple of acres of land and a cow and some pigs and live off the fat of the land. And have rabbits. (p 16). copyright John Steinbeck doc Page 1 of 10

2 Part two answers 1. Note down one thing we learn about Candy, Crooks and the boss in the first few pages of this part, before the boss s entrance? Candy: He only has one hand/seems to be some kind of cleaner (p 20) Crooks: The boss: He is the black stable buck/has a crooked back (p 21) Pretty nice fella (p 22)/brought a gallon of whisky at Christmas (p 22) 2. Note down who speaks these lines or who they are describing, and what it tells us about the speaker or the person being described. Quotation Character What it tells us We travel together. George This shows that George sticks up for his friend Lennie. His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hands closed into fists. Curley, p 26 Curley is always looking for a fight/he is aggressive. She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward. I seen em poison before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. There was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke. Curley s wife, p 32 George, p 33 Slim, p 35 She is keen to show off her body. George thinks that Curley s wife is the sort of woman who would get you into trouble. Slim is greatly respected on the ranch. copyright John Steinbeck doc Page 2 of 10

3 Part three answers Below are the events of part three put them into the right order. Weed puppy Candy crushes Lennie cultivator Clara travel around together the fatta the lan dog shoot his dog jump into a river dream George brothel Friday afternoon/evening wrong shoot tend the rabbits the bunkhouse help tell anyone a machine the dream This part of the novel takes place in the bunkhouse on Friday afternoon/evening. (p 39) George and Slim talk about Lennie, what a good worker he is and about how he and George travel around together. (p.40) George tells Slim about Lennie s aunt Clara, and a story about how George once told Lennie to jump into a river. (pp 40 41) George also tells Slim about what happened to them in Weed. When Lennie comes in, George forces him to give back the puppy he took from the barn. (pp 42 43) Carlson tells Candy that he must get rid of his dog. Candy doesn t agree. Whit shows Slim a magazine which has a letter from a man they knew who drove a cultivator on the farm. (pp 45 47) doc Page 3 of 10

4 Candy finally agrees to let Carlson shoot his dog. Whit invites George to go with him and the other men to town to go to a brothel. (pp 48 & 52) When Lennie returns, he asks George to tell him about the dream that they both have. Lennie says: We could live offa the fatta the lan. When Candy hears what they are talking about, he offers to help with raising the money. George tells them not to tell anyone. Candy is still upset that he didn t shoot his dog himself. (pp 57 61) When Curley comes in with Slim, Lennie is still thinking about the dream, and smiling. Curley hits Lennie until George tells Lennie to fight back. Lennie crushes Curley s hand. (pp 62 64) Slim tells Curley to say that he got his hand stuck in a machine. George tells Lennie he hasn t done anything wrong and he can still tend the rabbits. (pp 64 65) doc Page 4 of 10

5 Part four Below are the events of part four put them into the right order. This part takes place on: Saturday morning/saturday evening/sunday afternoon? Crooks tells Lennie that a guy goes nuts if he ain t got nobody. Curley s wife asks what happened to her husband s hand. Crooks invites Candy into his room. Crooks invites Lennie into his room. Curley s wife comes into Crooks s room. George comes to get Lennie. Crooks tells Lennie that without George he would be locked up. Lennie comes into Crooks s room. Crooks tells Lennie about how he gets treated because he is black. Crooks offers to come and help on the farm when the other three buy it. Crooks says that he has seen hundreds of men with the same dream as George and Lennie. Crooks tells Lennie to leave him alone. Curley s wife threatens Crooks doc Page 5 of 10

6 Part five answers 1. This part of the novel takes place in: the bunkhouse? the stables? the barn? 2. The last thing we saw in part four was: Crooks, alone, reading his books? Crooks, alone, rubbing his back? Crooks with some rabbits? 3. Outside, the men are playing with: the rabbits? horseshoes? cards? 4. This part of the novel takes place in: the evening? early morning? afternoon? 5. Lennie is sitting in some hay at the start of this part. He is looking at: Curley s wife? a dead puppy? the horses? 6. Curley s wife says she wants to talk to Lennie because: she gets lonely? she wants to hear Lennie s life story? she wants to buy some rabbits? 7. George told Lennie not to talk to Curley s wife because he says: she d get us in a mess? she s Curley s wife? she d never give us a fair price for rabbits? doc Page 6 of 10

7 8. Curley s wife says she could have been: in the movies? in the restaurant business? in the navy? 9. Lennie says he is nuts about rabbits because: they don t bite? he can talk to them? he likes to pet nice things? 10. Lennie doesn t want Curley s wife to scream because: she ll get him into trouble like George said she would? Curley might hear? she s got an irritating, squeaky voice? 11. When he realises Curley s wife is dead, Lennie says: now I can t tend the rabbits? aw, shucks? I done a bad thing? 12. Candy comes into the barn to tell Lennie: that he has some more ideas about their farm? that George has won the horseshoe competition? that he has won $10 in the lottery? 13. When Candy tells George what has happened, he asks him: you me an Crooks should leave the ranch now, huh George? you an me can get that little place, can t we, George? where s Lennie gone, George? 14. When George goes out, Candy gets angry at the body of Curley s wife because: now his dream is shattered? now Curley will be upset? she is bleeding all over the floor he has just swept? 15. When the men leave to hunt down Lennie, Candy is left alone again. He: finds the dead puppy? lies down and covers his eyes? starts singing the national anthem? doc Page 7 of 10

8 Part six answers Answer the following questions by circling or writing in the answers. This part takes place: in the barn by the pool in the Gabilan mountains The first four paragraphs describe the setting. Compare p.98 with p.9. What are the similarities and differences between the descriptions? Similarities: It is late afternoon/late evening; the sun is setting over the mountains; there is a water snake in the pool. Differences: The heron eats the water snake on p 98. There is only a little breeze and quiet on p 9, on p 98 there is a rush of wind, gusting through the trees. Why does Steinbeck describe the snake and the heron? Steinbeck shows the differences between the beginning of the novel and now. The snake in the first description is free and alive, like Lennie. In the second description the snake is killed, which predicts Lennie s death. Look for a simile Steinbeck uses to describe Lennie on p 98: He came as silently as a creeping bear moves doc Page 8 of 10

9 Summarise here what Lennie s vision of his aunt Clara says to him: She had told Lennie to listen to what George told him, but he didn t listen and did bad things. George always took care of Lennie. If it hadn t been for Lennie, George could have had a good life. (pp ) Summarise here what Lennie s vision of the giant rabbit says to him: The rabbit says that Lennie wouldn t be able to take care of any rabbits, and warns Lennie that George will beat him with a stick for what he has done and then leave him all alone. (pp ) Steinbeck describes how the sun is setting on p 102. Why? Because he wants to show time passing Because he wants to suggest a link between the setting of the sun and Lennie s life Because Steinbeck once said, I always want a setting sun to appear in my novels it s so romantic! Note down five things George and Lennie talk about on pp ? Whether George will give Lennie hell. How George could go off to a cat house with his $50. If Lennie will go off and live in a cave. How they have each other, unlike other guys who are lonely. Their dream. Of what does the shooting of Lennie in the back of the head remind you? On which page does that incident occur? It reminds me of: Candy s dog being shot by Carlson, on p.50. What does George want Lennie to know before he kills him? that he had never been mad at him that his aunt Clara would have been proud of him that there are rabbits in heaven doc Page 9 of 10

10 Why do you think George says I gotta. We gotta on p.105? George knows that he has to shoot Lennie, or else the other men might torture and then kill him. When he says we gotta, he might mean that he and Lennie now had to part forever. Why does Curley say right in the back of the head softly on p.105? Curley is surprised that George managed to shoot Lennie so accurately. He thinks that there is something strange about how George was able to do so. The softly shows that he is thinking about it, turning it over in his mind. What does Slim say to George on p.106, and why? Slim tells George: You hadda, George. I swear you hadda. This echoes George s I gotta. Slim recognises how difficult it was for George to kill his best friend, and tries to console him by telling him that what he did was for the best. copyright John Steinbeck doc Page 10 of 10