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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 Crooks talk about again and again?
(a) About sports.
(b) About being on the ranch.
(c) About whorehouses.
(d) About being lonely.

2. Who tells George, "Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes"?
(a) Candy.
(b) Slim.
(c) Whit.
(d) Curley.

3. Who insults Lennie, Crooks, and Candy in Chapter 4?
(a) Whit.
(b) Slim.
(c) Curley's wife.
(d) Curley.

4. How, according to Curley's wife, did a specific individual sabotage her success at her desired profession?
(a) By leave her.
(b) By steeling a letter from a man in the industry.
(c) By beating her.
(d) By Ground her.

5. What does Lennie tell Curley's wife happened to the object(s) Lennie had been staring at in the barn at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) He is not to blame.
(b) He has no idea.
(c) He accidentally smacked it.
(d) He doesn't know where they went.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Curley's wife try to flirt in Chapter 4?

2. Why does Lennie get upset with Crooks in Chapter 4?

3. Who is sitting in his room at the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. Why does a specific individual not want to work for Candy?

5. What is the second thing Lennie imagines he sees in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lennie do after he comes out of the brush from hiding, after his confrontation with Curley's Wife?

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

4. What happens when Lennie realizes that George will figure it out that Lennie has killed the puppy?

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

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

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

8. Where does Crooks, the black ranch hand, live on the ranch?

9. What does Crooks say to Lennie in Chapter 4 to upset him?

10. Describe Curley's wife.

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