Name: ___________________ Date: ______, 2022

Grade 10______

“Of Mice and Men” By John Steinbeck

Chapter 6

 
 

Analyze the text.

Answer all the questions.
Provide text evidence to support your answer. 
You may discuss the questions with a partner before writing
your answer. 

1. How is the beginning of this scene similar to the beginning of the

novel? Why would Steinbeck begin this chapter in the same way that he
began the first?
Lennie and George are back to where they started, the lake by
the bushes.

2. As Lennie is waiting for George, he remembers a “little fat old woman.

She wore thick bull’s-eye glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron
with pockets, and she was starched and clean.” (Pg. 100-101) Who is
the woman?

His aunt Clara

3. How can we explain the hallucinations that Lennie has as he is
waiting for George?
He is scared of what George will say; he knows he is hurting him.
4. How does George know where to find Lennie?
George told lennie in chapter 1 “if you ever get in trouble go to
that bush”

5. Explain the symbolism in George’s final telling of the farm story.

This is the last time George will tell Lennie the farm story

6. Explain the significance of the final statement in the novel.

Lennie’s Death wouldn’t have happened if Curley’s wife allowed
him to stroke her hair. In addition, Carlson and Curley did not
understand what happened.

Now discuss your answers with the class. 

 
 
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