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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lennie do at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Finds a can of beans.
(b) Kneel down by the water to drink.
(c) Eat a meal.
(d) Shoot himself.

2. What does the second image tell Lennie he is?
(a) Worthless.
(b) A hard worker.
(c) Educated.
(d) Smart.

3. Why does a specific individual not want to work for Candy?
(a) He can't get out of his current job.
(b) He doesn't have the time.
(c) It is a foolish plan.
(d) He hates Candy.

4. How, according to Curley's wife, did a specific individual sabotage her success at her desired profession?
(a) By leave her.
(b) By Ground her.
(c) By beating her.
(d) By steeling a letter from a man in the industry.

5. What does Crooks talk about again and again?
(a) About whorehouses.
(b) About being lonely.
(c) About sports.
(d) About being on the ranch.

6. Of what is Lennie afraid in Chapter 6?
(a) That George is going to be angry.
(b) That he won't ever see Curley's wife again.
(c) That he's lost.
(d) That he won't have enough money.

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

8. Why does Crooks live where he does?
(a) Because he smells.
(b) Because he paid for his room.
(c) Because he is black.
(d) Because he wants a cleaner room.

9. What does Lennie talk about again and again?
(a) Puppies.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Weed.
(d) Cats.

10. What does George repeat to Lennie?
(a) His name.
(b) The story about the place they are going to buy.
(c) Something that Crooks told him.
(d) A story that his father told him.

11. Why do the other men run into the clearing in Chapter 6?
(a) Curley tells them to.
(b) They see George.
(c) They see Lennie.
(d) They hear the gunshot.

12. Why did Curley's wife say she married Curley?
(a) For his soft hands.
(b) To get out of her mother's house.
(c) For his money.
(d) For a fresh start.

13. Who walks out of the brush in Chapter 6 and asks Lennie why he is yelling?
(a) Slim.
(b) Candy.
(c) George.
(d) Curley.

14. What does Lennie pick up before he runs away from the barn in Chapter 5?
(a) A mouse.
(b) Curley's wife's scarf.
(c) A dead puppy.
(d) A gun.

15. Who is the first to see what has happened, regarding the shooting at the end of the book?
(a) Curley.
(b) Whit.
(c) Slim.
(d) Candy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is someone shot Chapter 6?

2. To whom did George forbid Lennie to talk to?

3. What did Crooks' father once own?

4. What is Curley's wife wearing when she enters the barn in Chapter 5?

5. How often is Crooks at the ranch?

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