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Of Mice and Men

9th-10th grade ELA · Medium · 20-25 min

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This board helps players review Literature · John Steinbeck through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Setting & Plot, Themes, Symbols, Quotes & Trivia. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Characters

    The small, quick-witted protagonist.

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    George Milton

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  • Setting & Plot

    State the story is set in.

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    California

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  • Themes

    Major theme — pursuing a better life.

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    The American Dream

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  • Symbols

    What Candy's old dog foreshadows.

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    Lennie's death (mercy killing of the weak)

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  • Quotes & Trivia

    The title comes from a poem by this Scottish poet.

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    Robert Burns ('To a Mouse')

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  • Author & Context

    Genre of the work (it's shorter than a novel).

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    Novella

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Characters

$100 — The small, quick-witted protagonist.
George Milton
$200 — The large, mentally disabled friend.
Lennie Small
$300 — Old ranch hand with one hand and an old dog.
Candy
$400 — The Black stable hand, isolated by racism.
Crooks
$500 — The flirty wife of the boss's son.
Curley's wife

Setting & Plot

$100 — State the story is set in.
California
$200 — Decade the novella takes place in.
1930s (Great Depression)
$300 — What George and Lennie dream of owning.
A small farm with rabbits
$400 — What Lennie accidentally kills in Curley's wife's hair.
Her (he breaks her neck)
$500 — What George does to Lennie at the end.
Shoots him (mercifully)

Themes

$100 — Major theme — pursuing a better life.
The American Dream
$200 — Theme of being alone — Crooks, Candy and Curley's wife all suffer this.
Loneliness / isolation
$300 — Theme shown by George and Lennie's bond.
Friendship / loyalty
$400 — The harshness of life and how dreams are crushed.
Broken dreams / fate
$500 — Themes of weakness and the abuse of it (Curley, the boss).
Power and powerlessness

Symbols

$100 — What Candy's old dog foreshadows.
Lennie's death (mercy killing of the weak)
$200 — What the rabbits symbolize for Lennie.
His dream / safety
$300 — What the farm itself symbolizes.
Freedom and the American Dream
$400 — Lennie's strength represents this.
Power without control
$500 — The setting by the river bookends the story to symbolize this.
The cycle of life and death

Quotes & Trivia

$100 — The title comes from a poem by this Scottish poet.
Robert Burns ('To a Mouse')
$200 — Year published.
1937
$300 — George says guys like them are the ___ guys in the world.
Loneliest
$400 — Lennie loves to pet these soft things.
Mice, puppies, rabbits, soft fabrics
$500 — Curley wears one of these on his hand to keep it soft for his wife.
A glove full of Vaseline

Author & Context

$100 — Genre of the work (it's shorter than a novel).
Novella
$200 — Steinbeck won this prize in 1962.
Nobel Prize in Literature
$300 — The economic event that displaced workers like George and Lennie.
The Great Depression / Dust Bowl
$400 — The novella was written to be performed easily as this.
A stage play
$500 — Another famous Steinbeck novel about Dust Bowl migrants.
The Grapes of Wrath

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