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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Crooks excited to have Lennie in his room?
(a) He never gets to talk to anyone.
(b) He thinks Lennie is smarter than he looks.
(c) He wants to talk about George.
(d) He likes Lennie.

2. What is the setting for Chapter 6?
(a) Willits, California.
(b) Weed, California.
(c) Austin, Texas.
(d) Next to the Salinas River.

3. What does Curley's wife want Lennie to touch in Chapter 5?
(a) Her arm.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her legs.
(d) Her hands.

4. Where is the individual who takes George away at the end of the book taking George?
(a) Back to the bunkhouse.
(b) To get a drink.
(c) To a new ranch.
(d) To a whorehouse.

5. What does Crooks continue to criticize in Chapter 4?
(a) Racism.
(b) George and Lennie's plan.
(c) The ranch hands.
(d) Prostitution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lennie need to hide the objective he's been staring at in the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. Why does a specific individual not want to work for Candy?

3. What happens when Curley's wife says something horrible that she can have done to Crooks?

4. Who is said to look 'simple and pretty now' in Chapter 5?

5. Who has no friends?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Crooks doing in the beginning of Chapter 4, before Lennie entered, and then again at the end of the chapter when he is alone again?

2. Where does Crooks, the black ranch hand, live on the ranch?

3. Why does Crooks live in a separate space than the rest of the men?

4. At the end of the book, what does George say happened to Lennie?

5. Who is the first image that appears to Lennie as he is sitting in the brush in Chapter 6?

6. What does the rabbit image say to Lennie in Chapter 6?

7. What does George say when Lennie asks if he will leave him in Chapter 6?

8. What story does Lennie make George repeat to him while they sit together in the brush in the final chapter?

9. What does George think the men should do about Lennie, after they discover what he did to Curley's wife?

10. Has George ever been mad at Lennie, according to George's words?

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