Name:______________________________________
Date:________________
Class:_____
Match each term to it's sentence.
"George gonna say I done
a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits." He moved his
hand a little and her ____ cry came out. Then Lennie grew
angry. "
She consoled him. "Don't you worry none. He was jus' a _____. You
can get another one easy.
He lifted her arm and let it
drop. For a moment he seemed ___. And then he whispered
in fright, "I done a bad thing. I done another bad thing."
The old man put the yellow can in his pocket, and he rubbed his ____ white whiskers with his knuckles.
Then all of Lennie's ___ came back on him. "Joe my pup," he said sadly. "Jus' my little pup." And he swept the hay from on top of it.
"Well, it's ten acres," said George. "Got a little win'mill. Got a
little shack on it, an' a chicken run. Got a kitchen, orchard,
cherries, apples, peaches, 'cots, nuts, got a few berries. They's a
place for ___ and plenty water to flood it. They's a pig pen-'
Through the open
door came the thuds and occasional ___s of a horseshoe game,
and now and then the sound of voices raised in approval or
derision.
"Listen," she said "All the guys
got a horseshoe ____ goin' on. It' on'y about four o'clock. None
of them guys is goin to leave that ____. Why can't I talk to
you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely."
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. He leaned over the table and snapped the corner of a loose card.
It was Saturday night. 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 ____ chains. In the stable
buck's room a small electric globe threw a meager yellow light.