OMM-April 2024

1. Outdoor game that the men play together
6. Name of the town nearest to the ranch (see p.1)
8. Name of the town George and Lennie because of the incident with the girl’s dress
10. State where the book is set
11. Lennie got in trouble for holding on to a girl’s __________
12. "The best laid plans of mice and men oft go _____"
13. “The best laid ________ of mice and men oft go astray”
15. The Grapes of __________, another famous book by John Steinbeck
16. Word used to mean “pretty” in the book
17. The animals that Lennie thinks of as he falls asleep most nights
20. The kind of book that Of Mice and Men is; like a novel but shorter
22. The character who owns a dog that had pups on the ranch
23. Character who just got married

2. Slim’s job
3. In calling his book “Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck is making an ____________ to a well-known poem
4. Lennie and George have a job hauling bags of _________
5. The kind of workers who move place to place
7. Candy’s job
9. name of the African-American man who works in the stable
10. Character whose gun is used to kill Candy's beloved dog
14. The problem with Candy’s old dog is that he ________
18. Last name of the poet who wrote “To a Mouse”
19. The character who owns a dog that is shot because it’s considered old and useless
21. A knapsack on a stick; a way for a hobo to carry his possessions