Of Mice and Men—Ch. 3 Reading Check
Enter your answers in the gaps. Make sure the words are spelled correctly.
Candy
Candy
Lennie
Lennie
cards
Lennie
Carlson
mental
Curley
pups
drowned
Slim
hand
Slim
horse
Slim
jokes
Lennie
Lennie
Weed
It is early evening and everyone is returning to the bunkhouse for the night. George and _______________
develop a friendship. George tells _______________ why he and Lennie travel around together and about
Lennie’s _______________ deficiency. He explains that _______________ is strong but not mean; he doesn’t
even know his own strength. George even explains that he used to pla y_______________ on Lennie but that he
stopped because the last time Lennie almost _______________ . And George confides in Slim about what
really happened in _______________ to force them to leave their last job. Slim gives Lennie one of his
_______________. It has to stay in the barn with its mom until it gets bigger, but Lennie tries to sneak it out.
_______________ complains for a long while about the stink produced by _______________’s dog and finally
convinces Candy to allow him to shoot the dog. Though Candy protests, he cannot find anyone to back him up,
so he reluctantly gives in. Once the shooting finally happens, Candy is despondent and the rest of the men try to
continue playing _______________ and carry on normally.
A little while later, _______________ leaves the room to fix his _______________’s shoe. _______________
comes into the bunk house looking for his wife and suspiciously suspects Slim of being with her since he isn’t
in the room. He runs off to the barn to confront Slim and the rest of the ranchers--except Lennie, George, and
Candy--follow to see if there will be fight. While the bunkhouse is virtually empty, George again tells
_______________ about the dream of owning a farm. When _______________ hears this, he gets excited and
asks if he can be a part of it. He even offers to contribute $350.00 which makes it possible for their dream to
become a reality. Everyone returns to the bunkhouse including Curley. He is still confronting Slim, and Carlson
makes fun of him. He knows he can’t win in a fight against Slim or Carlson, so he immediately picks on
_______________ who he believes is laughing at him. _______________ does not fight back while Curley
beats him viciously until George tells him to. Then _______________ breaks every bone in Curley’s
_______________. George is afraid this will get them fired, but Slim makes sure that Curley won’t tell on
them.