Of Mice and Men Jeopardy Review

1. Jeopardy
Characters Quotes Lit. Terms Plot Characters 2
Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100
Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200
Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300
Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400
Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500
Final Jeopardy

2. $100 Question from Characters
Lost his hand and received
$250 because of it.

3. $100 Answer from Characters
Who is Candy?

4. $200 Question from Characters
The “stable buck” on
the ranch.

5. $200 Answer from Characters
Who is Crooks?

6. $300 Question from Characters
Shoots the old dog.

7. $300 Answer from Characters
Who is Carlson?

8. $400 Question from Characters
Jerkline skinner on ranch,
whom George told about
Lennie’s experience in
Weed.

9. $400 Answer from Characters
Who is Slim?

10. $500 Question from Characters
Son of the boss, whose
hand was crushed by
Lennie.

11. $500 Answer from Characters
Who is Curley?

12. $100 Question from Quotes
Character is described in the following
passage:
“She’s gonna make a mess. They’s
gonna be a bad mess about her. She’s
a jail bait all set on the trigger.

13. $100 Answer from Quotes
Who is Curley’s Wife?

14. $200 Question from Quotes
He says the following:
“I’d pet ‘em, and pretty soon they bit
my fingers and I pinched their heads a
little and then they was dead—because
they was so little.”

15. $200 Answer from Quotes
Who is Lennie?

16. $300 Question from Quotes
He says,
“You got no right to come in my
room. This here’s my room.
Nobody got any right in here but
me.”

17. $300 Answer from Quotes
Who is Crooks?

18. $400 Question from Quotes
He says,
“That dog of Candy’s is so God damn
old he can’t hardly walk. Stinks like
hell, too. . . Why’n’t you get Candy to
shoot his old dog.”

19. $400 Answer from Quotes
Who is Carlson?

20. $500 Question from Quotes
Says,
“An’ s’pose they lock him up an’
strap him down and put him in a
cage. That ain’t no good.”

21. $500 Answer from Quotes
Who is Slim?

22. $100 Question from Lit. Terms
“Lennie dabbled his big
paw in the water.”

23. $100 Answer from Lit. Terms
What is metaphor?

24. $200 Question from Lit. Terms
This is when we learn about the
character directly from the narrator.
For example, if the narrator tells
directly what Curley’s wife looks
like: “full, rouged lips and wide-
spaced eyes.”

25. $200 Answer from Lit. Terms
What is direct characterization?

26. $300 Question from Lit. Terms
The use of words like
“thud,” “clang,” “buzz.”

27. $300 Answer from Lit. Terms
What is
Onomatopoeia?

28. $400 Question from Lit. Terms
The literary device that is demonstrated
in the following passage:
“Then gradually time awakened
again and moved sluggishly on.”

29. $400 Answer from Lit. Terms
What is personification?

30. $500 Question from Lit. Terms
Candy is troubled over whether
or not to have his dog killed.
Later he says that he should have
done it himself.

31. $500 Answer from Lit. Terms
What is internal conflict?

32. $100 Question from PLOT
Lennie was to go here if he
got in any trouble.

33. $100 Answer from PLOT
What is the brush?

34. $200 Question from PLOT
This happened to cause
Lennie to start traveling
with George.

35. $200 Answer from PLOT
What is the death of Aunt
Clara?

36. $300 Question from PLOT
The men lie and say that
Curley’s hand got crushed by
this.

37. $300 Answer from PLOT
What is a machine?

38. $400 Question from PLOT
Characters that knew
about George and
Lennie’s dream.

39. $400 Answer from PLOT
Who are George, Lennie,
Candy, and Crooks?

40. $500 Question from PLOT
The setting of the story.

41. $500 Answer from PLOT
What is California?

42. $100 Question from Characters 2
This character always says,
“We’ll live off the fatta the
lan.”

43. $100 Answer from Characters 2
Who is Lennie?

44. $200 Question from Characters 2
George promised Lennie he
would ask this man for a pup.

45. $200 Answer from Characters 2
Who is Slim?

46. $300 Question from Characters 2
This man teased Lennie about
George not coming back from
town.

47. $300 Answer from Characters 2
Who is Crooks?

48. $400 Question from Characters 2
This was the only person
who really understood
why George had to shoot
Lennie.

49. $400 Answer from Characters 2
Who is Slim?

50. $500 Question from Characters 2
Says,
“I tell ya I could of went with
shows. Not jus’ one, neither.
An’ a guy tol’ me he could put
me in pitchers.”

51. $500 Answer from Characters 2
Who is Curley’s wife?

52. Final Jeopardy
What theme does the following passage
support?
I think I knowed from the very first.
I think I knowed we’d never do her.
He usta like to hear about it so much
I got to thinking maybe we would.”

53. Final Jeopardy Answer
What is idealism
vs. Realism?