This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > Of Mice And Men > Of Mice And Men – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Of Mice And Men Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word means "not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant" ? A) Apprehension. B) Aloof. C) Bindle. D) Crestfallen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aloof. 2. Which word is the following, a definition of:characterised by or feeling excitement and happiness. A) Euphoric. B) Harmonious. C) Tranquil. D) Nostalgia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphoric. 3. Which poet is linked to by Steinbeck's choice of title for the novel? A) Benjamin Zephaniah. B) William Shakespeare. C) Seamus Heaney. D) Robert Burns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Burns. 4. Curley's wife insults the men in Crooks' room by A) Saying that all the weak ones were left behind. B) Calling them all worthless cripples. C) Telling them they could never have a girl like her. D) Labeling them cowards for hurting Curley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saying that all the weak ones were left behind. 5. Which word works best to complete the sentence below? Upon hearing his ..... remarks, the teacher summarily removed the student from his classroom. A) Derogatory. B) Gravity. C) Apprehensive. D) Elaborate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Derogatory. 6. In chapter 2 George told the boss three lies about Lennie, which of the following was NOT one of the lies ..... A) Lennie was kicked in the head by a horse. B) Lennie was a good worker. C) George and Lennie finished building a cesspool before they arrived at the new ranch. D) Lennie was George's cousin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lennie was a good worker. 7. Discuss the character of Crooks in Chapter 5. A) Crooks is a major character who is loved by everyone. B) Crooks is a minor character who represents wealth and success. C) Crooks is a minor character who represents loneliness and discrimination. D) Crooks is a minor character who is not affected by discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crooks is a minor character who represents loneliness and discrimination. 8. How would you characterize the character of Slim? A) Quiet and wise. B) Loud and foolish. C) Aggressive and impulsive. D) Shy and timid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quiet and wise. 9. Which term best fits with the following synonyms:complicated, refined A) Despairing. B) Mottled. C) Tramp. D) Elaborate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elaborate. 10. In the beginning of the novel, Lennie and George are presented as traveling companions who look out for one another. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 11. Slim thought it was blameworthy behavior or ..... on Curley's part to pick a fight go after Lennie. A) Gingerly. B) Rouged. C) Mollified. D) Reprehensible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reprehensible. 12. Small or deficient in amount or size A) Poised. B) Meager. C) Aloof. D) Reverent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meager. 13. Loss of hope; hopelessness A) Cheer. B) Contentment. C) Despair. D) Faith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Despair. 14. Violent or destructive behavior A) Contort. B) Hurl. C) Muffled. D) Vicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vicious. 15. What literary device does Steinbeck most effectively use to convey the atmosphere of the ranch? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Imagery. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 16. Which word means "willing to consider or accept new suggestions and ideas" ? A) Scuttle. B) Alarmed. C) Subside. D) Receptive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Receptive. 17. Downcast; disappointed; humiliated A) Appraised. B) Crestfallen. C) Disarming. D) Liniment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crestfallen. 18. Descriptions of characters that reveal aspects of a character's personality and appearance A) Indirect characterization. B) Plot. C) Methods of characterization. D) Conflict type. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Methods of characterization. 19. Which character could be described as jealous? A) Lennie. B) Curley. C) Slim. D) Candy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Curley. 20. What does George want Lennie to do if he gets in any trouble? A) Prepare to fight in a boxing match. B) Run to Aunt Clara's. C) Hide in the brush from chapter 1. D) Sell rabbits for fast money. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hide in the brush from chapter 1. 21. What is the effect of the narrative's focus on Crooks' room and possessions? A) It creates a sense of clutter. B) It builds a background for Crooks' character. C) It slows down the story. D) It is irrelevant to the plot. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It builds a background for Crooks' character. 22. This picture is an expression of A) Hope. B) Love. C) Despair. D) Anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Despair. 23. Which of the following details does NOT support the inference that Crooks is different from the men in the bunkhouse? A) For being alone, Crooks could leave his things about. B) Crooks had his apple box over his bunk. C) He was more permanent than the other men. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crooks had his apple box over his bunk. 24. What was the result of this dare? A) Lennie got bit by a fish. B) Lennie almost drowned. C) Lennie got covered in leeches. D) Lennie swam ashore and attached George. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lennie almost drowned. 25. Significant gesture without speech A) Scoff. B) Yammered. C) Pantomime. D) Triumphantly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pantomime. 26. What caused George to change from teasing Lennie to taking care of him? A) Lennie fought another man who tried to attack George. B) George is his cousin. C) Lennie followed George's order to jump off a cliff when he couldn't swim. D) George hasn't changed, he still teases Lennie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lennie followed George's order to jump off a cliff when he couldn't swim. 27. Why is George upset at Candy? A) Because Candy allowed Lennie in Crooks' room. B) Because Candy told Crooks about the plan. C) Because Candy allowed Lennie to speak to Curley's wife. D) Because Candy didn't go with the men into town. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because Candy told Crooks about the plan. 28. To what is Lennie compared? A) Gorilla. B) Bear. C) Zebra. D) Lion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bear. 29. Extreme distress A) Lumber. B) Current. C) Anguish. D) Brusquely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anguish. 30. Lying down; reclining; leaning. A) Lumbered. B) Scoffed. C) Pantomime. D) Recumbent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recumbent. 31. Which of the following best describes the differences between George and Lennie? pg. 2-3 A) George is kind and patient; Lennie is mean and irritable. B) George is small and smart; Lennie is big and simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George is small and smart; Lennie is big and simple. 32. What kind act does Slim do for Lennie? A) Takes him on an adventure. B) Gives him a puppy. C) Gives him a rabbit. D) Buys him a ranch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gives him a puppy. 33. She had a brusque response to his question. What does the word 'brusque' mean? A) Feeling sad and downhearted. B) Intense sadness or suffering. C) Being blunt or curt in behavior. D) To explain in more detail or add more information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Being blunt or curt in behavior. 34. To move to a higher position; lift A) Raise. B) Elaborate. C) Dim. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Raise. 35. Recumbent (adjective) A) A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar. B) Marked by complexity and richness of detail. C) Move in a slow, heavy, awkward way. D) Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lying down; in a position of comfort or rest. 36. Which of the following sentences uses an alternative form for the word reprehensible correctly? A) The children were reprehensibly sad when after they smashed the vase. B) The people had some nonreprehensibleness popcorn to eat at the movie. C) She had some unreprehensibleness after her pictures. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The children were reprehensibly sad when after they smashed the vase. 37. Fawning (adjective) A) Not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant. B) Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection; obsequious. C) Not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant. D) Injure badly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Displaying exaggerated flattery or affection; obsequious. 38. What inference can be made about Lennie's understanding of Crooks' situation? A) Lennie fully understands Crooks' feelings of isolation. B) Lennie is indifferent to Crooks' plight. C) Lennie is curious but lacks the capacity to fully comprehend. D) Lennie sees Crooks as a figure of authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lennie is curious but lacks the capacity to fully comprehend. 39. How did Crooks become crippled? A) He was badly injured when he was a little kid. B) Crooks isn't crippled. C) A horse kicked him in the head. D) A horse kicked him in the back. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A horse kicked him in the back. 40. Which word means suggesting that something bad is going to happen? A) Pugnacious. B) Stilted. C) Ominous. D) Bindle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ominous. 41. What does it mean to "live off the fatta the lan" '? A) To save up money. B) To eat all of the food on a farm. C) To live off of the things the land produces. D) To raise rabbits for a living. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To live off of the things the land produces. 42. "Arrogantly or domineeringly; like a dictator" is the definition of: A) Impatiently. B) Derogatory. C) Imperiously. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imperiously. 43. How does Steinbeck use dialogue between characters to develop the theme of loneliness? A) Through their discussions about family. B) By showing their reluctance to share personal stories. C) Through expressions of their dreams and desires. D) By highlighting their conflicts and misunderstandings. E) Through jokes and laughter to mask true feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Through expressions of their dreams and desires. 44. "Awright, " he said brusquely. "Gi'me that mouse!" A) In a withdrawn or gloomy manner. B) In an abrupt or curt manner. C) Thought deeply about. D) Howeled as if in pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In an abrupt or curt manner. 45. Which word means "gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of things" ? A) Bindle. B) Aloof. C) Accumulate. D) Fawn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Accumulate. 46. A reference to another story or author? A) Alliteration. B) Exposition. C) Allusion. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 47. To soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease A) Mollify. B) Scowl. C) Irrigation. D) Anguish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mollify. 48. In a threatening way A) Recumbent. B) Complacently. C) Ominously. D) Mollified. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ominously. 49. "A water snake slipped along the pool, its head held up like a little periscope" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 50. Even in the 1920s life was still hard for which group/ groups of people? A) Disabled people and migrant workers. B) Young and old people. C) Young people. D) Women, black people, mentally disabled, the elderly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Women, black people, mentally disabled, the elderly. 51. Noun; points of union; connections A) Yammered. B) Recumbent. C) Junctures. D) Mottled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Junctures. 52. This character is the only female on the ranch. She is described as an attractive woman and enters the bunkhouse looking for her husband; the men don't think too highly of her. A) Smiley. B) Candy. C) Curley's wife. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Curley's wife. 53. Why does Curley look George up and down when he comes in asking about his wife? A) Because he overheard his wife talking about George and wanted to see him for herself. B) Because he knows how she is and thinks he may have to fight him. C) Because he's heard that George is a good fighter. D) Answer not given. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he knows how she is and thinks he may have to fight him. 54. Twisted in a violent manner; distorted A) Bridled. B) Lumbered. C) Contorted. D) Mollified. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contorted. 55. Identify whether the following pairing is an example of antonyms or synonyms:recumbent/ repose A) Antonym. B) Synonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synonym. 56. What sentence uses "indignant" correctly? A) He was indignant when he received a promotion at work. B) The cat looked indignant as it knocked over the vase. C) She felt indignant after winning the lottery. D) She was indignant about the way she was treated by her boss. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was indignant about the way she was treated by her boss. 57. What card game does George play? A) Rummy. B) Solitaire. C) Poker. D) Blackjack. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solitaire. 58. Before George meets Lennie in the woods in the final scene, whose gun does he take? A) Carlson's. B) Slim's. C) Curley's. D) Candy's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carlson's. 59. Curley's wife asks about what happened to Lennie's face after they won't talk about what happened to Curley's hand. He messes up by responding with what phrase? A) "He punched me first". B) "He got it caught in a machine". C) "I ain't supposed to talk to you.". D) "I like beans with ketchup" . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "He got it caught in a machine". 60. In Chapter 2 of "Of Mice and Men, " what theme becomes more pronounced as the story develops? A) The theme of power and control. B) The theme of innocence and purity. C) The theme of brotherhood and camaraderie. D) The theme of ambition and success. 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