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 * Chapter 1 assignment:** Get in a group of four, and each of you will answer a different question. Answer your question first, and then you may help one another. Paste your answers into the correlating pages listed on the left below.

Question 1: Find three quotations that describe or explain George and Lennie's relationship and explain what that quote means to you.

Question 2: Find four quotations that describe Lennie as an animal. Why do you think Steinbeck chose to portray Lennie with animal-like qualities?

Question 3: Find three quotations that give a hint or clue as to what kind of trouble Lennie may get in as the book progresses. Explain what kind of trouble that quotation indicates.

Question 4: Find the section that describes George and Lennie's dream. What are the details of their dream? Why do they feel they will be successful?

Chapter 2 assignment: You may write this on paper or on your page from the [|class wiki] Several new characters are introduced in this chapter. List the characters and find at least three adjectives that describe the physical attributes of the character. Using information from what the character says or does, what other characters say about him, or what you can infer based upon the author's description, give one character trait for this character and explain why you chose this trait. If you are enrolled in honors, you must find three character traits. [|Go here] for a list of character traits. Click on the trait for an explanation. Please use the second page also.

Honors: Find three passages that would explain the life of a hired ranch hand in the Depression. List those passages and tell what you can infer from the passage.

Quotation assignment

="Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want.'" Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? = = = ="All kin's a vegetables in the garden, and if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some milk. We'd jus' live there. We'd belong there. There wouldn't be no more runnin' round the country and gettin' fed by a Jap cook. No, sir, we'd have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? = = = ="Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? "I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? = = = ="S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunk house and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody-to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? = = = ="I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Everybody wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? = = = ="Maybe you guys better go. I ain't sure I want you in here no more. A colored man got to have some rights even if he don't like 'em." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? "If I catch any one man, and he's alone, I get along fine with him. But just let two of the guys get together an' you won't talk. Jus' nothing but mad. You're all scared of each other, that's what. Ever' one of you's scared the rest is goin' to get something on you." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? = = = ="-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." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? "Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes." Who said this, and to whom was it addressed? What is the significance of this quotation? = = = How does each of the main characters affect George and Lennie's dream?

Why does George take care of Lennie, and why does George shoot Lennie?

Why do you think George and Lennie have to repeat the dream all the time?

What did Slim mean when he says "A guy got to sometimes" (107).

"It wasn't nothing," Crooks said dully. "You guys comin' in an' settin' made me forget. What she says is true." What did Crooks forget for a while? What was true?

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