Mice and Men 1-2

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Across
  1. 5. Cares for the horses
  2. 6. Lennie and George are _____ workers.
  3. 9. Type of clothing the men wore
  4. 10. What Lennie hides in his pocket
  5. 11. Cramped space where the men sleep
  6. 13. Author of Mice and Men
  7. 14. George kept this in his pocket
  8. 17. Town where the story takes place
  9. 19. Leader of the work crew
  10. 20. Lennie wanted to _____ a girl's dress
  11. 21. Type of canine owned by Candy
  12. 23. The large, strong but mentally challenged protagonist.
  13. 24. The oldest character
  14. 25. _____ River is the opening setting
  15. 28. Color of rabbit that Lennie prefers
  16. 29. The food Lennie likes with his beans.
  17. 30. Day in 1929 when the stock market crashed.
  18. 31. Decade when the Great Depression began.
  19. 32. Economic crisis affecting the U.S. in the 1930s
  20. 33. Feeling of isolation
Down
  1. 1. The smaller, clever main character.
  2. 2. The boss is mad because they were _____
  3. 3. George checks for ____ in their beds.
  4. 4. Lennie wants to tend the _____.
  5. 7. She flirts with the men
  6. 8. The town George and Lennie fled from at the start.
  7. 9. Region devastated by severe dust storms in the 1930s
  8. 12. Animal that describes Lennie
  9. 15. The boss’s aggressive son.
  10. 16. Instruction George gives Lennie if there’s trouble 4 words.
  11. 18. The American __, central to the characters’ hopes.
  12. 22. What Candy is missing
  13. 26. Cared for Lennie when he was younger
  14. 27. State where most of Steinbeck’s stories are set