This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > American Classics > Of Mice And Men > Of Mice And Men – Quiz 69 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Of Mice And Men Quiz 69 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the only man to understand the bond between Lennie and George? A) Crooks. B) Curley. C) Slim. D) No one understood their bond. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slim. 2. Which character is missing his right hand, is old and has an old dog? A) Candy. B) Curley. C) Crooks. D) Carlson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Candy. 3. On the floor or lying down A) Dead. B) Exasperate. C) Recumbent. D) Wistful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recumbent. 4. Lingered; stayed suspended A) Craftily. B) Emphasis. C) Gingham. D) Hovered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hovered. 5. The shape or manner in which things come together A) Recumbent. B) Juncture. C) Ominously. D) Pantomime. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Juncture. 6. Why do the men avoid Curley's wife? A) Because she is wanted for murder. B) Because she isn't nice. C) Because they fear that Curley will beat them up if he catches them near her. D) They don't avoid her, she avoids them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because they fear that Curley will beat them up if he catches them near her. 7. Which of these statements about George and Lennie's shared dream for their future is best supported by the text? pg. 14-15 A) Lennie is looking forward to tending rabbits, and George is looking forward to being self-sufficient. B) George is looking forward to panning for gold in a river that runs through his land, and Lennie is looking forward to drinking from the stream. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lennie is looking forward to tending rabbits, and George is looking forward to being self-sufficient. 8. What excuse does George give for not arriving earlier? A) The train driver gave them "a bum steer". B) The taxi driver gave them "a bum steer". C) The screwdriver gave them "a bum steer". D) The bus driver gave them "a bum steer". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The bus driver gave them "a bum steer". 9. What was the long narrative poem written by John Milton that is important for understanding the novel and its message about dreams never coming true? A) To a Grecian Urn. B) Sonnet 29. C) The Grapes of Wrath. D) Paradise Lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradise Lost. 10. What does Curley's constant questioning about his wife's whereabouts indirectly suggest about his character? A) Confidence. B) Trustworthiness. C) Insecurity. D) Indifference . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Insecurity. 11. What was the name of the newspaper Steinbeck worked for? A) The Republican. B) The Roots. C) The Canadian. D) The American. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The American. 12. Which word means "in a careful and unhurried way" ? A) Deliberately. B) Gingerly. C) Promptly. D) Abruptly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deliberately. 13. What did George think of Curley's wife? A) He likes her and he's planning on fighting Curley. B) He thought she was mean. C) He thought she wasn't nearly as pretty as Carlson had made her out to be. D) Answer not given. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Answer not given. 14. What is the setting of the story as described in the opening of the chapter? A) Near a city in California. B) South of Soledad, near the Salinas River. C) In the mountains of Colorado. D) On a farm in Kansas. E) Not specified. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) South of Soledad, near the Salinas River. 15. Which character is responsible, caring, and goal-oriented? A) Lennie. B) George. C) Candy. D) Curley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George. 16. After Curley's wife was killed in the barn, the mother dog could tell something ..... happened just by her sense of smell. A) Pugnacious. B) Reprehensible. C) Derogatory. D) Ominous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ominous. 17. He entered the room in a regal fashion, displaying the ..... of his bearing. A) Scoff. B) Derogatory. C) Liniment. D) Majesty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Majesty. 18. What word means:laugh at with contempt and derision? A) Plead. B) Scoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scoff. 19. His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse. A) Hyperbole. B) Foreshadowing. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 20. Define WRYLY A) In a clever and intelligent way. B) In an amusing and ironic way. C) In a crafty and mischievous way. D) In a mean and insulting way. 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