This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > American Classics > Of Mice And Men > Of Mice And Men – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Of Mice And Men Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. With a feeling of contempt; scornfully A) Appraised. B) Indignation. C) Contemptuously. D) Sullenness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contemptuously. 2. The old dog belonged to whom? A) Curley. B) Carlson. C) Slim. D) Candy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Candy. 3. Which line of dialogue provides the best evidence that Lennie has low self-esteem? A) Go on, George! Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden. B) Furry ones, George. Like I seen at the fair in Sacramento. C) That's it, that's it! Now tell how it is with us. D) 'Cause I can jus' as well go away, George, and live in a cave. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 'Cause I can jus' as well go away, George, and live in a cave. 4. Moved swiftly and smoothly A) Scudded. B) Retort. C) Belligerent. D) Disapproving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scudded. 5. What sentence uses "sullen" correctly? A) The sullen child laughed and played with his friends. B) She greeted him with a sullen smile. C) The dark clouds and lack of sunlight made the atmosphere sullen. D) The cheerful music put everyone in a sullen mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The dark clouds and lack of sunlight made the atmosphere sullen. 6. Jazmin appraised the damage to the car after the accident. In this sentence, appraised means: A) Ignored. B) Loved. C) Estimated. D) Embraced. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Estimated. 7. The stars began to glimmer in the night sky. What does the word 'glimmer' mean? A) A faint, small, or gentle light. B) Small pieces of broken or scattered materials. C) Being blunt or curt in behavior. D) Flashing brightly and rapidly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A faint, small, or gentle light. 8. A major theme explored in this play is- A) The struggle for racial equality. B) The need for social etiquette. C) The desire for a return to a better time. D) The dream of economic self-sufficiency. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The dream of economic self-sufficiency. 9. Why does Curley attack Lennie? A) He thinks Lennie is laughing at him along with the other men. B) Curley likes to fight only big guys and Lennie was the biggest man there. C) Curley caught Lennie playing with the pups and taking them out of the nest. D) Curley discovers the "dream ranch plan" and wants to put an end to the nonsense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He thinks Lennie is laughing at him along with the other men. 10. The mean comment from his teacher on his report card filled him with ..... A) Happiness. B) Arouse. C) Sympathy. D) Indignation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indignation. 11. What is the meaning of profound? A) Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen. B) Puzzled, confused, or bewildered. C) Having or showing great knowledge or insight. D) With pleasure or satisfaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having or showing great knowledge or insight. 12. Why does George instruct Lennie not to speak when they arrive at the ranch? A) He's afraid if Lennie speaks they won't get the job. B) Lennie's family is not friends with the rancher. C) Lennie only ever talks about beans and ketchup. D) The rancher has a "no talking" policy when meeting new employees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He's afraid if Lennie speaks they won't get the job. 13. What does Curley's wife offer to let Lennie touch? A) Her dress. B) Her face. C) Her hand. D) Her hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her hair. 14. What does the word 'contemplated' mean? A) Howled or wailed as if in pain; whimpered. B) With extreme anxiety or torment; distressed. C) Think deeply about. D) In a haughty, dictatorial, or overbearing manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Think deeply about. 15. Which word means "marked with spots or smears of color" ? A) Pantomime. B) Emerge. C) Tramp. D) Mottled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mottled. 16. TRUE or FALSE In the end Curly catches Lennie and kills him. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 17. In 1962, Steinbeck won what award? A) The Heisman Trophy. B) Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship. C) An Oscar. D) Nobel Prize for Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nobel Prize for Literature. 18. While Crooks is talking to Lennie, what is revealed to the reader? A) Crooks is a native of California. B) Crooks' dad owned a chicken farm. C) Crooks has two brothers. D) All of these points are revealed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these points are revealed. 19. Which word is the following, a definition of:a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past. A) Idyllic. B) Nostalgia. C) Sombre. D) Ethereal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nostalgia. 20. Which word means "a liquid or lotion, especially one made with oil, for rubbing on the body to relieve pain" ? A) Liniment. B) Apprehension. C) Accumulate. D) Contemptuously. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liniment. 21. Hates big guys; wears a glove full of vaseline A) Curley. B) Candy. C) Carlson. D) Crooks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Curley. 22. The mouse found a ..... amount of food under the chair. A) Subsided. B) Aloof. C) Cowering. D) Meager. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meager. 23. What is Crooks doing when Lennie enters his room? A) Rubbing liniment on his back. B) Putting tar on a mule's hoof. C) Fixing a harness. D) Reading the California Civil Code for 1905. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rubbing liniment on his back. 24. Showing or expressing disdain; disrespectful. A) Appraised. B) Contemptuously. C) Aloof. D) Crestfallen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contemptuously. 25. Who is the first person to discover Curley's Wife's body? A) Slim. B) George. C) Candy. D) Curley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Candy. 26. To increase in value A) Diminish. B) Brittle. C) Depreciate. D) Appreciate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appreciate. 27. What type of shoes does the boss wear on his feet? A) Slippers. B) Sunday best shoes. C) High heeled boots and spurs. D) Working boots. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High heeled boots and spurs. 28. Flat, with no expression A) Sullenly. B) Monotonous. C) Wisps. D) Taloned. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monotonous. 29. Handled roughly; beaten up A) Meager. B) Disarming. C) Persuasive. D) Mauled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mauled. 30. Who do George and Lennie tell about their dream? A) Slim. B) Candy. C) Curley. D) The boss. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Candy. 31. Move clumsily or heavily A) Debris. B) Lumber. C) Juncture. D) Morose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lumber. 32. This person is suspicious of George and Lennie's relationship ..... A) The Boss. B) Candy. C) Carlson. D) Curley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Boss. 33. What does contorted mean? A) Twisted or bent out of the normal shape. B) Puzzled, confused, or bewildered. C) With pleasure or satisfaction. D) Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twisted or bent out of the normal shape. 34. Verb; twisted or squirmed, especiallyfrom feelings of pain A) Cringed. B) Woe. C) Bewildered. D) Writhed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writhed. 35. Which character tries to console Lennie about the dead puppy? A) Candy. B) Crooks. C) Curley's wife. D) George. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Curley's wife. 36. Words that don't relate to their true meanings. A) Stereotype. B) Stigma. C) Literate. D) Misnomer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Misnomer. 37. Which word is the following, a definition of:extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world. A) Tense. B) Ethereal. C) Morose. D) Funereal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethereal. 38. What does George say his life would be like without Lennie? A) He'd have a girlfriend and no worries and his life would be much easier. B) He'd move back to Weeds and buy a small house. C) He'd give up ranching and become a sheriff. D) He'd be lonely and have no one to share his dreams with. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He'd have a girlfriend and no worries and his life would be much easier. 39. Which statement best describes how Lennie prefers his beans? A) With hot sauce. B) With ketchup. C) With mustard. D) With mayonnaise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With ketchup. 40. Abruptly, angrily, or bluntly in manner or speech A) Brusquely. B) Yammer. C) Morose. D) They recline. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brusquely. 41. Withdrawn or gloomy; sad; thoughtful A) Morose. B) Brusquely. C) Lumber. D) Debris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morose. 42. Who wants to live on the "dream ranch" with George and Lennie? A) Candy. B) Curley's wife. C) Carlson. D) Crooks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Candy. 43. In a sad, gloomy manner A) Brusquely. B) Derogatory. C) Morosely. D) Recumbent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morosely. 44. Which of the following selections best explains where George and Lennie are going? A) They are going to find a job. B) They are looking to buy a ranch in California. C) They are going hunting for rabbits. D) They are looking for someone who stole money from them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are going to find a job. 45. The vocabulary word that means "domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial" is ..... A) Pantomime. B) Juncture. C) Reprehensible. D) Imperiously. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imperiously. 46. Why did Lennie return to this place? A) He wanted to find a mouse. B) He wanted to go fishing. C) He didn't like working at the farm. D) He knew he did a bad thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He knew he did a bad thing. 47. Why did George stop playing tricks on Lennie years ago? A) Because he nearly made Lennie drown once and felt ashamed. B) Because Aunt Clara told him to stop. C) Because Lennie beat him up. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he nearly made Lennie drown once and felt ashamed. 48. The dust bowl balladeer, Woody Guthrie, sang "Hobo's Lullaby." This tune connects to George and Lennie because ..... A) It describes how Candy was grizzled and missing a hand. B) It describes how migrant workers drifted from town to town and were often in trouble with the law. C) It describes how difficult it was to keep clean during the dust bowl. D) It describes life in the Salinas River Valley and the lush scenic views found there. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It describes how migrant workers drifted from town to town and were often in trouble with the law. 49. In an unrelenting, harsh, or cruel way A) Appraised. B) Aloof. C) Brutally. D) Crestfallen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brutally. 50. Curley picks a fight with what character? A) Gerge. B) Carlson. C) Candy. D) Lennie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lennie. 51. Which line from the text supports your answer in question #4? A) "I'm jus' tryin' to tell you I didn't mean nothing, " said Curley. "I just thought you might of saw her.". B) "Come on ya big *******. Get up on your feet. I'll show ya who's yella.". C) "I won't tell, " said Curley. He avoided looking at Lennie. D) "Curley sat down on the floor, looking in wonder at his crushed hand.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "I'm jus' tryin' to tell you I didn't mean nothing, " said Curley. "I just thought you might of saw her.". 52. Which term best fits with the following synonyms:marbled, streaked A) Recumbent. B) Brusque. C) Elaborate. D) Mottled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mottled. 53. A category of literature that is longer than short stories and shorter than novels A) Novella. B) Journal. C) Editorial. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novella. 54. Which word describes 'with extreme anxiety or torment; distressed'? A) Lumbered. B) Anguished. C) Contemplated. D) Brusquely. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anguished. 55. Noun; a pain-relieving cream or ointment A) Liniment. B) Indignation. C) Mauled. D) Disarming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liniment. 56. Eyeglasses with earpieces A) Spectacles. B) Not spectacles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spectacles. 57. The place, environment, and time of the story A) Plot. B) Theme. C) Setting. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 58. This picture illustrates the word A) Homesteading. B) Journey. C) Exodus. D) Destiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exodus. 59. Because of Slim's characterization, George: A) Lies to him as he lied to the boss. B) Tells him the truth about his relationship with Lennie. C) Decides that he and Lennie must leave the ranch immediately. D) Decides to disobey every order that Slim gives to him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tells him the truth about his relationship with Lennie. 60. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. A) Personification, metaphor. B) Metaphor, personification. C) Foreshadowing, personification. D) Hyperbole, metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification, metaphor. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAmerican Classics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesOf Mice And Men Quiz 1Of Mice And Men Quiz 2Of Mice And Men Quiz 3Of Mice And Men Quiz 5Of Mice And Men Quiz 6Of Mice And Men Quiz 7Of Mice And Men Quiz 8Of Mice And Men Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books