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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. What does Curley's wife call the men in Crooks' room?
(a) Lazy bums.
(b) Bindle bums.
(c) Sexy hunks.
(d) Silly goats.

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

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

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

5. Who takes George away at the end of the book?
(a) Candy.
(b) Slim.
(c) Whit.
(d) Curley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crooks talk about again and again?

2. Who is the first to see what has happened, regarding the shooting at the end of the book?

3. What does George assure Lennie in Chapter 6?

4. When Lennie apologizes to the first image, what does he say he tried to do?

5. Who walks in to talk with Crooks in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Lennie comes to visit Crooks in Chapter 4?

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

4. What story does Crooks share with Lennie in Chapter 4?

5. Why did Curley's wife even marry Curley in the first place?

6. When Crooks tells Curley's wife to leave his room, what happens?

7. What has happened to the puppy that Lennie talks to in Chapter 5?

8. What does George pull out of his pocket in Chapter 6, while sitting with Lennie?

9. What does George do with the gun in Chapter 6?

10. Who does Curley's wife insult when she walks into Crooks' room?

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