Of Mice and Men worksheet 5 pages 84 -98

Directions: Answer each question with a complete sentence on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What is Lennie doing in the barn at the beginning of this section and what does it foreshadow?

2. Curley’s wife talks to Lennie in the barn and tells him her dream and ambition. What was it?

3. What prevented Curley’s wife from realizing her dream?

4. Lennie pets the hair of Curley’s wife and accidently breaks her neck. “…and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish.” Who else was described as “flopping like a fish” in the book.

5. Candy discovers the body and goes to get George. But Candy is not worried as to what may happen to Lennie. What is he worried about?

6. Candy gradually becomes angry and yells at the body, accusing her of ending his dream of living on the dream farm. With what Bible story might this scene be compared?

(hint: a woman causes the loss of a perfect place.)

7. George suggests that everyone would know that Lennie didn’t commit this murder out of meanness. “Couldn’t we maybe bring him in an’ they’ll lock him up? He’s nuts, Slim. He never done this to be mean.” Slim answers with two possibilities. What are those two possibilities?

8. At the end of this section, “Old Candy lay down in the hay and covered his eyes with his arm.” This is quite similar to what he did when his dog was shot. What might this foreshadow?