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Of Mice and Men: Chapter 3 Quote Test
Answer the individual questions.
1. Who says the following? ______
“It wasn’t nothing. . . . I would of had to drowned most of ’em anyways. No need to thank me
about that.”
2. Who says the following? ______
“Me an’ Lennie’s rollin’ up a stake. . . . I might go in an’ set and have a shot, but I ain’t puttin’
out no two and a half.”
3. Who is being described in the following words?
______
“She’s gonna make a mess. They’s gonna be a bad mess about her. She’s a jail bait all set on the
trigger.”
4. Who says the following? ______
“He spends half his time lookin’ for her, and the rest of the time she’s lookin’ for him.”
5. Who says the following? ______
“Any you guys seen my wife?”
6. To whom are the following words spoken? ______
“Used to play jokes on ’im ’cause he was too dumb to take care of ’imself. But he was too dumb
even to know he had a joke played on him.”
7. Who says the following? ______
“When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me. But they won’t do nothing like that. I
won’t have no place to go, an’ I can’t get no more jobs.” 8. Who says the following? ______
“Used to play jokes on ’im ’cause he was too dumb to take care of ’imself. But he was too dumb
even to know he had a joke played on him.”
9. Who says the following? ______
“If I was bright, if I was even a little bit smart, I’d have my own little place, an’ I’d be bringin’ in
my own crops, ’stead of doin’ all the work and not getting what comes up outa the ground.”
10.Who says the following? ______
“I can still tend the rabbits, George?”
11.Who says the following? ______
“I ain’t much good with on’y one hand. I lost my hand right here on this ranch. That’s why they
give me a job swampin’. An’ they give me two hunderd an’ fifty dollars ‘cause I los’ my hand.
An’ I got fifty more saved up right in the bank, right now. Tha’s three hundred, and I got fifty
more comin’ the end a the month. Tell you what— . . . S’pose I went in with you guys.”
12.Who says the following? ______
“She’s gonna make a mess. They’s gonna be a bad mess about her. She’s a jail bait all set on the
trigger.”
13.Who says the following? ______
“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my
dog.”
14.About whom is the narrator talking in the following passage?
______
“He wore his blue denim coat over his shoulders like a cape, and he walked hunched way over.”