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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Curley's wife says something horrible that she can have done to Crooks?
(a) Crooks backs down.
(b) Crooks runs away.
(c) Crooks hits her.
(d) Lennie hits her.

2. What does Lennie carry in his pocket?
(a) Money.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A dead mouse.
(d) A picture of his mother.

3. Who is a stocky man who wears blue jeans and a flannel shirt?
(a) Carlson.
(b) The boss.
(c) George.
(d) Lennie.

4. What does Lennie ask he object(s) he is starting at in the barn at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) How strong they are.
(b) What's so special about them.
(c) Why it died.
(d) What happened to it.

5. Why did Aunt Clara stop giving Lennie mice?
(a) Because he kept killing them.
(b) Because she ran out.
(c) Because she died.
(d) Because she got sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Curley's wife try to flirt in Chapter 4?

2. What does Chapter 2 start off describing?

3. What did the boss buy everyone at the ranch for Christmas?

4. What did George once do to impress a bunch of men?

5. Who fights with Lennie at the end of Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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