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
In Robert Burns’ line that inspired Steinbeck’s title, what often happens to the “best-laid schemes”?
Go awry
During the Great Depression, what were the makeshift shantytowns built by the homeless called?
Hoovervilles
Which ranch hand repeatedly pressures Candy to permit a mercy killing of his old, smelly dog in the bunkhouse?
Carlson