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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is someone shot Chapter 6?

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

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

4. What does George say in his lie?

5. What horrible does Curley's wife say she can do to Crooks?

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

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

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

5. What does George ask of Curley after they have discovered what has happened?

6. What happens when Curley's wife offers to let Lennie stroke her soft hair?

7. Describe Curley's wife.

8. What does Candy say they should do about Lennie, after they discover what happened to Curley's wife?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

George and Lennie have been talking about their dream for a while when George finally realizes that it could actually come true. But in the end, it doesn't. Do you think that their dream was ever going to come true? Do you think that George ever really believed it would come true? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

George used to play jokes on Lennie but not anymore after one incident in which Lennie nearly drowned. That said, why do you think George played tricks on Lennie in the first place? There are several possible reasons, so explain each in terms of how George may have benefited from the trick.

Essay Topic 3

Soledad, California is the setting of this story, and the background seems to be as much a character as the humans who take part in the action. Why do you think that Steinbeck chose this setting for the story? How does the story help or hurt the characters?

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