1) _____________________________________________

She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the
____s of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers. "I'm
lookin' for Curley," she said. Her voice had a nasal, ____ quality.

2) _____________________________________________

"Damn right he don’t," said George, slightly ___ied, "not if he
wants to stay. workin’ long."

3) _____________________________________________

And these shelves were
loaded with little articles soap and ___um powder, razors and
those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and
secretly believe.

4) _____________________________________________

The old man sat down on another box. "Don’t tell Curley I said
none of this. He’d ___ me. He just don’t give a damn. Won’t
ever get canned ’cause his old man’s the boss."

5) _____________________________________________

He paused in ____ of the memory. "After that the guys went into Soledad and raised hell,
didn’t go in there. I ain’t got the poop no more."

6) _____________________________________________

His ear heard more than was said to him,
and his slow speech had ___s not of thought, but of
understanding beyond thought.

7) _____________________________________________

And there were medicines on the shelves, and
little ___, combs; and from nails on the box sides, a few neckties.

8) _____________________________________________

Lennie, who had been following the conversation back and forth
with his eyes, smiled ____ at the compliment. Slim looked
approvingly at George for having given the compliment.

9) _____________________________________________

"Says ‘positively kills lice, roaches and other:, ____s.’ What the
hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways. We don’t want no pants
rabbits."

10) _____________________________________________

s. "I'm lookin' for Curley," she said. Her voice had a nasal, ___ quality.