Answer the individual questions. Your answers need to be spelled correctly.
Who says the following?
“O.K.—O.K. I’ll tell ya again. I ain’t got nothing to do. Might jus’ as well spen’ all my time tellin’ you things and then you forget ‘em, and I tell you again.”
Who says the following?
“I don’t know where there is no other mouse. I remember a lady used to give ‘em to me—ever’ one she got. But that lady ain’t here.”
About what lady is this character talking?
“I don’t know where there is no other mouse. I remember a lady used to give ‘em to me—ever’ one she got. But that lady ain’t here.”
“What’d you take outa that pocket?”
“Ain’t a thing in my pocket.”
“I know there ain’t. You got it in your hand. What you got in your hand—hidin’ it?”
What does Lennie have in his hand?
Who says the following?
“God, you’re a lot of trouble. I could get along so easy and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl.”
“George’s hand remained outstretched imperiously. Slowly, like a terrier who doesn’t want to bring a ball to its master, Lennie approached, drew back, approached again. George snapped his fingers sharply, and at the sound Lennie laid the mouse in his hand.”
This is an example of ___________________.
Who 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.”
To whom are these words spoken?
“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.”
“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees . . . There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water.”
This is an example of ___________________.
“Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes.”
This is an example of ___________________.
Who says the following?
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch an’ work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re pounding in’ their tail on some other ranch. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to.”
Who says the following?
“Says ‘positively kills lice, roaches and other scourges.’ What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no pants rabbits.”
“Says ‘positively kills lice, roaches and other scourges.’ What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no pants rabbits.”
The vocabulary and grammar that shows local language is example of the author writing in ______________________.
“At about ten o’clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.”
The above has an example of __________________.
To whom are the following words spoken?
“Says ‘positively kills lice, roaches and other scourges.’ What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no pants rabbits.”
Who says the following?
“I said what stake you got in this guy? You takin’ his pay away from him?”
Who says the following?
“By Christ, he’s gotta talk when he’s spoke to. What the hell are you getting’ into it for?”
Who says the following?
“Well . . . tell you what. Curley’s like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He’s alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he’s mad at ‘em because he ain’t a big guy. You seen little guys like that , ain’t you? Always scrappy?”
Who says the following?
Well, I tell ya what—Curley says he’s keepin’ that hand soft for his wife.”
“The old man was reassured. He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now, and he spoke confidently.”
This piece of narration proves that the narrator is _____________________.
“She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers.”
This is an example of _____________________.
“Ain’t many guys travel around together. I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
What theme does this quote help reveal?
“I’m George Milton. This here’s Lennie Small.”
“Glad to meet ya,” Carlson said again. “He ain’t small at all.”
This piece of dialogue as an example of ____________________.
Who says the following?
“She slang her pups last night. . . . Nine of ‘em. I drowned four of ‘em right off. She couldn’t fee that many.”
Who says the following?
“Well, looka here, Slim. I been thinkin’. That dog of Candy’s is so God damn old he can’t hardly walk. Stinks like hell, too. Ever’ time he comes into the bunk house I can smell him for two, three days. Why’n’t you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up? I can smell that a mile away. Got no teeth, damn near blind, can’t eat.”