Name:______________________________________
Date:________________
Class:_____
Match each term to it's sentence.
It sat on its ___s in front of him, and it
waggled its ears and crinkled its nose at him. And it spoke in
Lennie's voice too.
He woulda took his pay an' raised hell in
a whore house, and he coulda set in a poolroom an' player ____. But he got to take care of you."
George shook himself. He said ____, "If I was alone I could
live so easy." His voice was mo-notonous, had no emphasis. "I
could get a job an' not have no mess." He stopped
Only the tops of the Gabilan
mountains flamed with the light of the sun that hid gone from the
valley. A water snake slipped along on the pool, its head held up
like a little _____. The reeds jerked slightly in the current.
You ain't worth a greased
jack-pin to ___ you into hell. Christ knows George done ever'thing
he could to jack you outa the sewer, but it don't do no good.
Now Lennie retorted ____, "He ain't neither. George won't
do nothing like that. I've knew George since-1 forget when-and he
ain't never raised his ban' to me with a stick. He's nice to me. He
ain't gonna be mean."
George handed the pup to him. "Awright. You get him back there
quick, and don't you take him out no more. You'll kill him, the
first thing you know." Lennie fairly ____d out of the room.
Only the ____ ridges were in the sun now. The shadow in the
valley was blue and soft. From the distance came the sound of
men shouting to one another. George turned his head and listened
to the shouts
He knelt down and drank,
barely touching his lips to the water. When a little bird ___d
over the dry leaves behind him, his head jerked up and he
strained toward the sound with eyes and ears until he saw the
bird, and then he dropped his head and drank again.
"Tend rabbits," it said ____. "You crazy bastard. You ain't fit
to lick the boots of no rabbit. You'd forget 'em and let 'em go
hungry. That's what you'd do. An' then what would George think?"