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 * Chapter 1 assignment:** Get in a group of four, and each of you will answer a different question. Answer your question first, and then you may help one another. Paste your answers into the correlating pages listed on the left below.

Question 1: Find three quotations that describe or explain George and Lennie's relationship and explain what that quote means to you.

Question 2: Find four quotations that describe Lennie as an animal. Why do you think Steinbeck chose to portray Lennie with animal-like qualities?

Question 3: Find three quotations that give a hint or clue as to what kind of trouble Lennie may get in as the book progresses. Explain what kind of trouble that quotation indicates.

Question 4: Find the section that describes George and Lennie's dream. What are the details of their dream? Why do they feel they will be successful?

Several new characters are introduced in this chapter. List the characters and find at least three adjectives that describe the physical attributes of the character. Using information from what the character says or does, what other characters say about him, or what you can infer based upon the author's description, give one character trait for this character and explain why you chose this trait. If you are enrolled in honors, you must find three character traits. [|Go here] for a list of character traits. Click on the trait for an explanation. Please use the second page also.
 * Chapter 2 assignment:** You may write this on paper or on your page from the Class wiki DO NOT ANSWER ON THIS PAGE.

Honors: Find three passages that would explain the life of a hired ranch hand in the Depression. List those passages and tell what you can infer from the passage.