Name:______________________________________
Date:________________
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Match each term to it's sentence.
This room was swept and fairly neat, for Crooks was a proud,
___ man. He kept his distance and demanded that other people
keep theirs.
Lennie gulped and his smile grew more ___. "I ain't doing nothing," he said. "Just come to look at my puppy. And I seen your light," he explained.
Candy was ___. "Didn't tell nobody but Crooks."
"If you go right now, we won't tell Curley you was here." She ___d him coolly. "I ain't sure you heard nothing." "Better not take no chances," he said. "If you ain't sure, you better take the safe way."
Lennie growled back to his seat on the nail keg. "Ain't nobody goin' to talk no hurt to George," he ____d.
Standin' here talkin' to a bunch of bindle stiffs-a nigger an' a ___ and a lousy of sheep-n' Orin' it because they ain't nobody else."
Think I'm gonna stay in that twoby-four house and listen how Curley's gonna lead with his left twict, and then bring in the of right cross? `One-two' he says. `Jus' the of one-two an' he'll go down."' She paused and her face lost its ____ and grew interested. "Say-what happened to Curley's ban'?"
"You jus' let 'em try to get the rabbits. I'll break their God damn necks. I'll . . . . I'll smash 'em with a stick." He ____d, grumbling to himself, threatening the future cats which might dare to disturb the future rabbits.
Through the open door that led into the barn came the sound of moving horses, of feet stirring, of teeth champing on hay, of the rattle of halter chains. In the stable buck's room a small electric globe threw a ___ yellow light.
And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a ___ed copy of the California civil code for 1905. There were battered magazines and a few dirty books on a special shelf over his bunk.