OMM Jeopardy
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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Characters
This character killed
Candy’s Dog
$100 Answer from Characters
Carlson
$200 Question from Characters
The “stable buck” or
stable man on the ranch.
$200 Answer from Characters
Crooks
$300 Question from Characters
This character is the
“old swamper.”
$300 Answer from Characters
Who is Candy
$400 Question from Characters
This character is a skinner;
reasonable; understands
Lenny & George.
$400 Answer from Characters
Who is Slim?
$500 Question from Characters
Hot-tempered son of the
boss, whose hand was
crushed by Lennie.
$500 Answer from Characters
Curley
$100 Question from Quotes
Character is described in the following
passage:
“I don’t like this place George. This
ain’t no good place. I wanna get
outta
$100 Answer from Quotes
Lennie
$200 Question from Quotes
Character says the following:
“I’m looking for Curly.”
$200 Answer from Quotes
Curley’s Wife
$300 Question from Quotes
This character says,
“Never you mind,” he said. “A guy
got to sometime.”
$300 Answer from Quotes
Slim
$400 Question from Quotes
This character says,
“I ought to of shot that dog myself,
George. I shouldn’t of let no stranger
shoot my dog.”
$400 Answer from Quotes
Candy
$500 Question from Quotes
Who is this character:
“For a moment he seemed
bewildered. And then he whispered
in fright, ‘I done a bad thing. I done
another bad thing.’”
$500 Answer from Quotes
Lennie
$100 Question from Quotes
“You guys comin in and
settin’ made me forget.
What she says is true.”
$100 Answer from Quotes
Crooks
$200 Question from Lit. Terms
Conflict that occurs between
characters. For example, this occurs
between Lenny and Curley.
$200 Answer from Lit. Terms
External Conflict
$300 Question from Lit. Terms
The attitude toward the
writing. In OMM, it
would be sympathetic yet
realistic.
$300 Answer from Lit. Terms
Tone
$300 Answer from Lit. Terms
The author provides
hints of future events
in the story. For
example, the killing of
the mouse, and the
puppy.
$300 Answer from Lit. Terms
Foreshadowing
$400 Question from Lit. Terms
The literary device that is demonstrated
in the following passage:
“Then gradually time awakened
again and moved sluggishly on.”
$400 Answer from Lit. Terms
Personification
$500 Question from Lit. Terms
What type of conflict is this:
Candy is troubled over whether
or not to have his dog killed.
Later he says that he should have
done it himself.
$500 Answer from Lit. Terms
Internal conflict
$100 Question from Characters &
Events
What does Slim have that
Lennie wants?
$100 Answer from Characters &
Events
Puppies
$200 Question from Characters &
Events
What does George say he
could do if he were alone?
$200 Answer from Characters &
Events
Drink whiskey all night, play
cards at a pool hall all night,
go to a “cat house.”
$300 Question from Characters &
Events
Why did Curley fight with
Lennie?
$300 Answer from Characters &
Events
Curley thought
Lennie was
laughing at him
$400 Question from Characters &
Events
How does Lennie drink
from the pool the second
time he arrives?
$400 Answer from Characters &
Events
This time, he remembers to
use his tin cup
$500 Question from Characters &
Events
Where is the setting of the story?
(Hint: its Steinbeck’s home town)
$500 Answer from Events &
Characters
Salinas, CA
$100 Question from History
What decade was the story
set in?
$100 Answer from History
1930’s
$200 Question from History
Who was the President during
this time period?
$200 Answer from History
President Franklin
Roosevelt
$300 Question from History
What was the biggest economic
problem in this time period?
$300 Answer from History
The Great Depression -1929
$400 Question from History
Why were people migrating from
East to West in America during
the 1930’s?
$400 Answer from History
-“The Dust Bowl” – drought
-In search of work
-Economic downfall
$500 Question from History
What was the name of the
President’s famous social
program? Name the “3 R’s.”
$500 Answer from History
The New Deal:
Relief, Recovery, &
Reform
Final Jeopardy
What are the 2 types of
discrimination that occurs in the
book? One arose in the early
1900’s.
Final Jeopardy Answer
1. Discrimination of Migrant
workers (George & Lennie)
2. Racial discrimination
(Crooks)
More Lit Terms for Bonus
Points…300
A verbal or situational context involving
outcomes that are either unexpected,
unanticipated or the opposite of what
they should be. Example: Lenny’s last
name is “Small,” yet his physique is the
opposite. The only small thing about
him is his childlike mind…
Answer for 300 pts
Irony
Bonus Points: 100
What is the relationship between
the protagonist and the
antagonist?
Bonus Points answer: 100
The protagonist is the
The antagonist…
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