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Of Mice and Men Trivia

Show you’re no soft mouse by wrangling Steinbeck’s wild ranch dreams, mercy killings, and downright mousey mayhem.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

During the Great Depression in California’s Salinas Valley, George and Lennie are headed to find work on what type of place?

Ranch

In Steinbeck’s 1930s-set novella, who is the ranch’s only woman, viewed with suspicion by the male workers?

Curley's wife

During their early riverside conversation, who tells Lennie, "We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us"?

George

During the Great Depression, what were the makeshift shantytowns built by the homeless called?

Hoovervilles

In Steinbeck's Great Depression tale, Which ranch communal building embodies exclusion as some characters are barred from entering?

Bunkhouse