Of Mice and Men
Reading Comprehension Questions, Chapter Two
***numbers 2,3,4,6,7,8,10 need to be several detailed and complete sentences***
1. What details does Steinbeck give about the setting (the bunkhouse)? List at least five things.
2. Why do you think George camped in the clearing the night before and arrived at the ranch when most of the men were away, working?
3. Do you believe Candy’s statement, “The boss give he [Crooks] – when he’s mad. But the stable buck [Crooks] don’t give a damn about that” (20) is true? Why or why not?
4. The boss asks George, “What stake you got in this guy? You takin’ his pay away from him?” (22). What makes the boss suspicious? What is George’s response?
5. Contrast Curley’s bheavior on page 25 with Candy’s statement that, “A guy on a racnch don’t never listen nor he don’t ast no questions” (24). How is Curley behaving?
6. How does George to Curley’s wife? How does Lennie?
7. What is unusual about George and Lennie’s relationship. Consider what Slim thinks of George and Lennie traveling together from his comment, “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” (35).
8. Why do you think George tells Slim the truth about himself and Lennie when he has been cautious and defensive with the other men?
9. Why does Carlson want Candy’s dog shot?
Of Mice and Men
Reading Comprehension Questions, Chapter Two
***numbers 2,3,4,6,7,8,10 need to be several detailed and complete sentences***
1. What details does Steinbeck give about the setting (the bunkhouse)? List at least five things.
2. Why do you think George camped in the clearing the night before and arrived at the ranch when most of the men were away, working?
3. Do you believe Candy’s statement, “The boss give he [Crooks] – when he’s mad. But the stable buck [Crooks] don’t give a damn about that” (20) is true? Why or why not?
4. The boss asks George, “What stake you got in this guy? You takin’ his pay away from him?” (22). What makes the boss suspicious? What is George’s response?
5. Contrast Curley’s bheavior on page 25 with Candy’s statement that, “A guy on a racnch don’t never listen nor he don’t ast no questions” (24). How is Curley behaving?
6. How does George to Curley’s wife? How does Lennie?
7. What is unusual about George and Lennie’s relationship. Consider what Slim thinks of George and Lennie traveling together from his comment, “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” (35).
8. Why do you think George tells Slim the truth about himself and Lennie when he has been cautious and defensive with the other men?
9. Why does Carlson want Candy’s dog shot?