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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The small, quick-witted protagonist.
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George Milton
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State the story is set in.
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California
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Major theme — pursuing a better life.
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The American Dream
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What Candy's old dog foreshadows.
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Lennie's death (mercy killing of the weak)
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The title comes from a poem by this Scottish poet.
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Robert Burns ('To a Mouse')
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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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