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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Crooks say about migrant workers who want to own a ranch?
(a) It always happens.
(b) It's a silly dream.
(c) It never happens.
(d) It is boring to hear about.

2. To whom did George forbid Lennie to talk to?
(a) Whit.
(b) Curley.
(c) Curley's wife.
(d) Carlson.

3. What does Crooks hate about being on the ranch?
(a) No one listens to him.
(b) He has too much work to do.
(c) No one gives him a raise.
(d) No one knows his name.

4. Who says in Chapter 4 that he really doesn't want to work for Candy?
(a) Crooks.
(b) Whit.
(c) George.
(d) Slim.

5. What is Curley's wife wearing when she enters the barn in Chapter 5?
(a) A red dress.
(b) Overalls.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A bright dress and makeup.

6. What do George and the other men decide to do with Lennie after his confrontation with Curley's wife?
(a) To give him a dress.
(b) To lynch him.
(c) To give him a puppy.
(d) To have him locked up.

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

8. Who watches George and the individual leading him away at the end of the book?
(a) Slim and Candy.
(b) Curley and Candy.
(c) Slim and Curley.
(d) Curley and Carlson.

9. Why does Lennie need to hide the objective he's been staring at in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Because he likes to hide things.
(b) Because he said he would.
(c) Because he is ashamed.
(d) So George can't find out.

10. Who begins organizing a search to find Lennie?
(a) Candy.
(b) Curley.
(c) George.
(d) Carlson.

11. Who walks in to talk with Crooks in Chapter 4?
(a) Whit.
(b) Slim.
(c) Lennie.
(d) George.

12. What does Curley's wife say in Chapter 5 that she had wanted to do for a profession?
(a) Become an actress.
(b) Become a princess.
(c) Become a ranch owner.
(d) Become a wife.

13. What horrible does Curley's wife say she can do to Crooks?
(a) Kiss him.
(b) Have him strung from a tree.
(c) Flirt with him.
(d) Kill him.

14. What is the second thing Lennie imagines he sees in Chapter 6?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) Aunt Clara.
(c) George.
(d) Candy.

15. Who is sitting in his room at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Candy.
(b) Whit.
(c) Crooks.
(d) Carlson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Curley's wife in Chapter 5?

2. What does George say in his lie?

3. What does the first image Lennie saw in Chapter 6 think will happen if Lennie gets rabbits?

4. What does Lennie ask George in Chapter 6?

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

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