Of Mice and Men
A Picture Game – Chapters Five and Six Revision
A Teacher’s Guide – How to play?
You will need to divide the groups into teams of equal size. Teams of 6 maximum are advised.
The first team chooses a number ranging from 1-20. A member of the team is then shown the word
corresponding with this number on the appropriate card.
I usually allow 30 seconds for the pupil to draw on the whiteboard. They need to draw images
associated with this word – Pictionary style. No words are allowed!
During this time members of this team can shout out as many suggestions as they like. If they say the
exact word/s on the card they score 1 point. If they fail then the next team get one guess after
conferring – it becomes worth 2 points. If they fail it becomes worth 3 marks to the next team and
so on.
The original team are then asked the question also associated with this word – again they score 1
mark, if they fail it is passed on for 2 marks etc …
1.
Horseshoe
11. Glasses
2.
Sausage
12. Stick
3.
Letter
13. Hell
4.
Brush
14. Hat
Fish
15. Cow
Beard
16. Slim
Bunkhouse
17. America
Circus
18. Candy’s Dog
Shotgun
19. Drink
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Bag
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20. River
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Associated Questions
1.
Explain the relevance of horseshoes to the start of chapter 5.
2.
Curley’s Wife joins Lennie in the barn just after he has killed the puppy. How are sausages
linked with Curley’s Wife?
3.
Curley’s Wife tells Lennie about a letter she never received. Tell me about this letter.
4.
Curley’s Wife says her hair is smooth because she brushes it often. She invites Lennie to
stroke it. She then says, several times, Don’t you _______________ it up.
5.
Curley’s Wife flopped like a fish. What had Lennie done to her?
6.
Who is the first rancher to discover the dead Curley’s Wife?
7.
How does George make sure the ranch men do not think he was also in on the murder of
Curley’s Wife?
8.
Who calls Curley’s Wife a god damn tramp because his dreams of going to circuses or baseball
games whenever he wishes dies with her?
9.
Curley discovers his dead wife and immediately goes for his shotgun. Where does he intend to
shoot Lennie? And why?
10.
Whose Luger has been stolen from his bag? Who does he think has stolen it? Who really has
taken it?
11.
Who is wearing bull’s-eye thick glasses in chapter 6?
12.
Who tells Lennie George is sick of him, will beat him with a stick and leave him?
13.
George does not give Lennie hell. George knows he has to kill Lennie. His voice is described
as being monotonous. What does this mean?
14.
Lennie is told to take his hat off by George. Why?
15.
Where is Lennie told to look whilst George retells their farm dream?
16.
Why is Slim so important at the end of the novel?
17.
What decade of the 1900s is this novel set in?
18.
Looking back to earlier chapters, now tell me about the significance of Candy’s dog.
19.
Slim suggests he and George have a drink. Which two characters fail to understand what is
wrong with these men?
20.
The setting of the river and the brush is the same at the start and at the end of the novel.
Name the bird mentioned at both the start and end, within this setting.
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Associated Questions – The Answers
1.
Explain the relevance of horseshoes to the start of chapter 5. Lennie is left alone in
the barn whilst the men play in a horseshoes tournament
2.
Curley’s Wife joins Lennie in the barn just after he has killed the puppy. How are
sausages linked with Curley’s Wife? She has little sausage curls
3.
Curley’s Wife tells Lennie about a letter she never received. Tell me about this letter.
Supposedly a man she had met was going to write to her from Hollywood
with an opportunity for a future in the movies. She believed her mother
kept the letter from her. This is unlikely – the man had no doubt lied to her
as a means of attracting her to him
4.
Curley’s Wife says her hair is smooth because she brushes it often. She invites Lennie
to stroke it. She then says, several times, Don’t you muss it up.
5.
Curley’s Wife flopped like a fish. What had Lennie done to her? Broken her neck
6.
Who is the first rancher to discover the dead Curley’s Wife? Candy
7.
How does George make sure the ranch men do not think he was also in on the murder
of Curley’s Wife? George goes to the bunkhouse, Candy tells the other men
about Curley’s wife, George arrives and pretends he knows nothing
8.
Who calls Curley’s Wife a god damn tramp because his dreams of going to circuses or
baseball games whenever he wishes die with her? Candy
9.
Curley discovers his dead wife and immediately goes for his shotgun. Where does he
intend to shoot Lennie? And why? In the guts, bringing a slow and painful death
10.
Whose Luger has been stolen from his bag? Who does he think has stolen it? Who
really has taken it? Carlson’s gun is missing. He thinks Lennie has stolen it.
George actually has taken it.
11.
Who is wearing bull’s-eye thick glasses in chapter 6?
Aunt Clara – as imagined by Lennie
12.
Who tells Lennie George is sick of him, will beat him with a stick and leave him?
A gigantic rabbit – as imagined by Lennie
13.
George does not give Lennie hell. George knows he has to kill Lennie. His voice is
described as being monotonous. What does this mean?
Of one tone, emotionless, automatic pilot …
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14.
Lennie is told to take his hat off by George. Why?
George intends to shoot Lennie in the back of the head
15.
Where is Lennie told to look whilst George retells of their farm dream?
Across the river
16.
Why is Slim so important at the end of the novel?
He understands why George had to kill Lennie and that Lennie was not mean
17.
What decade of the 1900s is this novel set in? 1930s
18.
Looking back to earlier chapters, now tell me about the significance of Candy’s dog.
Candy wished he had shot his own dog rather than allow someone else to do
it. In the same way George sees it is right he kills Lennie kindly rather than
allow someone else to do it. He does not want to see Lennie suffer.
19.
Slim suggests he and George have a drink. Which two characters fail to understand
what is wrong with these men? Curley and Carlson
20.
The setting of the river and the brush is the same at the start and at the end of the
novel. Name the bird mentioned at both the start and end, within this setting. Heron
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