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
During their early riverside conversation, who tells Lennie, "We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us"?
George
In Steinbeck’s 1930s-set novella, who is the ranch’s only woman, viewed with suspicion by the male workers?
Curley's wife
During the Great Depression, what were the makeshift shantytowns built by the homeless called?
Hoovervilles
How did migrant farmworkers pressure growers during time-sensitive harvests in 1930s California to win better pay and conditions?
Strikes