Of Mice and Men: Chapter 6 Questions
and Answers Graded A
How is the beginning of this scene similar to the beginning of the novel? Why would Steinbeck
begin this chapter in the same way that he began the first? ✔✔Story has come full circle. Lennie
is back where he and George started.
Explain the image of the heron awaiting its prey and its connection to Lennie and his
circumstances. ✔✔The Heron is the men coming after Lennie, Lennie is the snake who is killed.
Lennie is going to be killed by the men.
As Lennie is waiting for George, he remembers a ¨little fat old woman. She wore thick bull´s-eye
glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron with pockets, and she was starched and clean.¨ Who
is this woman? ✔✔Lennie´s Aunt Clara
How can you explain the hallucinations that Lennie has as he is waiting for George? ✔✔He is
scared for what George will say, he knows he is hurting George.
How does George know where to find Lennie? ✔✔George had told Lennie to go the brush by
the creek if anything bad happens.
and Answers Graded A
How is the beginning of this scene similar to the beginning of the novel? Why would Steinbeck
begin this chapter in the same way that he began the first? ✔✔Story has come full circle. Lennie
is back where he and George started.
Explain the image of the heron awaiting its prey and its connection to Lennie and his
circumstances. ✔✔The Heron is the men coming after Lennie, Lennie is the snake who is killed.
Lennie is going to be killed by the men.
As Lennie is waiting for George, he remembers a ¨little fat old woman. She wore thick bull´s-eye
glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron with pockets, and she was starched and clean.¨ Who
is this woman? ✔✔Lennie´s Aunt Clara
How can you explain the hallucinations that Lennie has as he is waiting for George? ✔✔He is
scared for what George will say, he knows he is hurting George.
How does George know where to find Lennie? ✔✔George had told Lennie to go the brush by
the creek if anything bad happens.
