Of Mice and Men Review

Allegorically, Curley's wife represents

• Prostitution

• Stupidity

• Powerless position of women

• Women who marry for money

Steinbeck's title alludes to

• Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse"

• Ernest Hemingway's poem "To a Mouse"

• Lennie's love of mice

• How powerless the men are against more powerful forces

The word "appraised" as in "The man appraised the rowdy student critically" means

• disguised

• condemned

• angered

• evaluated

If you "console" someone, you _____ them

• abandon

• comfort

• scold

• convict

To answer sharply is to

• disarm

• subside

• maul

• retort

Lennie's incident in Weed is an example of

• theme

• allusion

• foreshadowing

• symbolism

The dead puppy is a symbol of

• powerlessness against a greater power

• the waste of life

• the stock market crash of 1929

• broken loyalty

The food chain in nature is represented allegorically by

• the animals in the novella

• the degree of power held by the people on the ranch

• the friendship between Lennie and George

• the game of solitaire George plays

A technique in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events.

• allusion

• theme

• allegory

• symbolism

A technique in which an object represents a greater idea or truth.

• symbolism

• allegory

• allusion

• theme