Of Mice and Men

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Leseverstehenstest 1 zu „Of Mice and Men“
Leseverstehenstest 2 zu „Of Mice and Men“

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Chapter 1

1. TF The Salinas River is north of Soledad.
2. Who were the two men walking down the worn path?
3. TF George and Lennie were physically similar.
4. Who called whom "a crazy bastard"?
5. TF George allowed Lennie to carry his own work card.
6. What did George take away from Lennie?
7. Lennie liked beans with:

A) ketchup
B) milk
C) hot sauce
D) tacos

8. What did Lennie do the first time he was asked to gather wood?
9. Why did Aunt Clara stop giving Lennie mice?
10. Who could live so easy if he were alone?
11. Why did George and Lennie have to leave Weed?
12. What could probably be said about Lennie?
He is:

A) intelligent
B) violent
C) emotional
D) silly

13. What did Lennie suggest he could do after George's repeated insults?
14. TF George doesn't care if Lennie goes or stays.
15. TF George has instructed Lennie not to say anything when they reach the farmhouse.

Chapter 2

1. What was the attitude of the ranch men toward the western magazines?
2. Which of the following was the yellow can in George's box shelf not for? Killing:

A) roaches
B) mice
C) lice
D) bad odors

3. TF According to the old swamper (Candy), Whitey was a hygienic man.
4. What was the reason for George and Lennie's late arrival at their job?
5. TF George's last name is never mentioned.
6. What action of Lennie's aroused some suspicion in the boss?
7. TF George told the boss Lennie was his cousin.
8. Who might have been eavesdropping on George and Lennie?
9. TF Curley's attitude toward Lennie was of contempt.
10. Who was Curley?
11. Who was cockier than ever since he got married?
12. TF The swamper wanted assurance from George that his opinions about Curley's wife would be kept secret.
13. Away from whom was Lennie supposed to stay?
14. TF Curley's wife appreciated Lennie's eyes moving down over her body.
15. What opinions did Lennie and George hold about Curleys wife?
16. TF Slim was described as a foolish and dense man.
17. What did Slim drown last night?

Chapter 3

1. Who were Slim and George talking about in the bunk house?
2. TF An attempt by Lennie to run away is what changed George's mind about being mean.
3. In Weed, Lennie wanted to touch what?
4. Why did "the guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie"?
5. What did Lennie try to sneak into the bunk house?
6. What did Candy want for his gut ache?
7. Carlson, suggesting that the dog be shot, pointed to what part of the animal?
8. Whose opinions were law?
9. TF Candy looked to Slim for some reversal concerning his dog's fate.
10. Who shot the dog?
11. TF When the shot was heard and the nasty business was over with, the old man joined the card game to preoccupy his mind.
12. What is the name of the black farmhand?
13. TF Curley's wife is the main attraction at Susy's place.
14. TF Candy turned over and looked for a moment at the rifle before he turned back to the wall again.
15. TF George preferred jail bait to a whore house.
16. What would Lennie take care of if he and George had their own land?
17. Did Candy think George and Lennie's plan on living "offa the fatta the lan" was silly?
18. Whom did Curley choose as his scapegoat?
19. What was Lennie's reaction toward what he'd done to Curley?
20. Slim told Curley he should say what to explain his crushed hand?

Chapter 4

1. Who was Crooks?
2. TF Crooks could not read.
3. TF Lennie broke his promise to George during his conversation with Crooks.
4. Where was Crooks born?
5. TF Crooks's face lighted with pleasure in his torture of Lennie.
6. TF Lennie was completely confident that nothing had happened to George.
7. TF Crooks was not allowed into the bunk house because he was black.
8. TF Not many men had plans to own land as Lennie and George did.
9. Who postulated that money could be made "on them rabbits if we go about it right"?
10. Who came into Crooks's room looking for Curley?
11. TF Curley's wife mocked her husband's fighting lingo.
12. TF The men were frank with Curley's wife when she inquired about her husband's hand.
13. TF The men enjoyed Curley's wife's company.
14. TF Curley's wife deduced that Lennie was the machine that crushed Curley's hand.
15. How could Curley's wife have Crooks "strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny"?
16. TF George found Lennie in Crooks's room.
17. TF Crooks went back to reading a book after everyone had gone.

Chapter 5

1. What were the men playing outside of the barn?
2. What had happened to Lennie's puppy?
3. TF Lennie was reluctant to talk to Curley's wife.
4. TF Curley's wife got Lennie to lower his guard by reiterating the "lonely" theme.
5. TF Curley's wife talked to Lennie about her two previous divorces.
6. TF Curley's wife admitted that she didn't like her husband and simultaneously nudged closer to Lennie.
7. TF As Curley's wife talked of herself, Lennie's interest in caressing her intensified.
8. Why did Lennie begin stroking her hair?
9. Why did Lennie cover her mouth?
10. When Lennie stopped shaking Curley's wife, why was she still?
11. What four things were gone from her face as she lay there?
12. Who informed George about Curley's wife?
13. TF George intuitively knew Lennie had done it.
14. What was Candy's greatest fear?
15. In order to create an alibi, George went back to the bunk-house and would reappear in another minute or so.
16. TF Upon viewing his dead wife, Curley was dumbfounded and had no idea as to whom to accuse.
17. TF George, after hearing Slim say "I guess we gotta get 'im," acquiesced without proposing an alternative fate for Lennie.

Chapter 6

1. TF Lennie appeared out of the brush as silently as a creeping bear.
2. TF Lennie is very proud of himself because he did not forget to return to this secret, safe place (the deep green pool of the Salinas River) just as George had told him to do.
3. Where did Lennie tell Aunt Clara he would live?
4. What seemed to concern Lennie the most considering what he'd done?
5. As Aunt Clara disappeared, what did Lennie imagine seeing next?
6. The rabbit said who is going to beat the hell out of Lennie with a stick and leave him?
7. TF Lennie, uncertain of Curley's wife's death, believed wholeheartedly that she would track him down herself and beat Lennie to a pulp with the help of Susy's girls.
8. TF George was enraged at what Lennie had done.
9. After Lennie's repeated attempts to make George give him hell, what two things did he ask George to tell him about?
10. What was the thing George wanted Lennie to know most of all?
11. TF George, as he reached the end of his story about living "offa the fatta the lan'," shot Lennie.
12. Who seemed to be the only man sensitive to George's feelings about what he'd done?

Leseverstehenstest 2
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Hinter dieser australischen Adresse verbirgt sich ein Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension Test zu „Of Mice and Men“, der nach kleineren Korrekturen durchaus empfohlen werden kann. Dieser Test ist leichter zu korrigieren als der ausführlichere Leseverstehenstest 1, der von der kalifornischen High School angeboten wird.