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39 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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The black Stable hand
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Crooks
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Crooks name comes from his
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crooked back
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Who wants to be apart of the rabbit farm
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Crooks , Lennie , George, and Candy
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Ranch Handyman
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Candy
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lost hand in a accident
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Candy
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Killing of Candy's dog foreshadows ..
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Lennies Death
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Wants to hoe in the garden
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Crooks
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The boss's son
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Curley
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Wears high heeled boats
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Curley
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Rumored to be championed prize fighter
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Curley
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Mule driver
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Slim
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"prince" of the ranch
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slim
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Only character seems at peace with himself
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Slim
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Look to BLANK for advice
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Slim
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Who comforts george at end of novel
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slim
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What two characters are ranch hands
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Whit and Carlson
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Complains bitterly about Candy''s dog
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Carlson
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Kills Candy's dog
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Carlson
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Whos gun kills Lennie
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Carlsons
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Stocky , well dressed
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The boss
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Who reports that the boss once bought them bear for christmas
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Candy
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Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ in our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.
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George
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S’pose they was a carnival or a circus come to town, or a ball game, or any damn thing.” Old Candy nodded in appreciation of the idea. “We’d just go to her,
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George
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We wouldn’t ask nobody if we could. Jus’ say, ‘We’ll go to her,’ an’ we would. Jus’ milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens an’ go to her.”
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George
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A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by. I seen things out here. I wasn’t drunk. I don’t know if I was asleep. If some guy was with me, he could tell me I was asleep, an’ then it would be all right. But I jus’ don’t know.
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Crooks
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I seen hundreds 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 . . . 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. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.
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Crooks
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Who wears a vaseline filled glove
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Curley
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Whit enters the bunkhouse with a magazine featuring a man he used to work with. Why is the man in the magazine?
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He wrote a letter to the editor, praising the publication.
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Old susys place
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flop house
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Who discovers curleys dead wife
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Candy
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fancy red shoes
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wife
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Mice and men first published in
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1937
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What is the name of the town from which George and Lennie are fleeing when the novel opens?
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Weed
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Mice and men set in what decade
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30s
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Why do many critics find fault with Of Mice and Men?
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They find Steinbeck’s portrayal of Lennie excessively sentimental.
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How does Steinbeck foreshadow the death of Curley’s wife?
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He opens the chapter in which she dies with Lennie petting his dead puppy.
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After killing Curley’s wife, which of the following pairs does Lennie imagine appears to chastise his behavior?
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Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit
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Story set
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The story is set on a ranch a few miles from Soledad in the Salinas Valley.
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Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes."
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Slim
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