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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CROOKS CHAPTER 4
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-Guarantee passing score -19 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Does Crooks still want to work on George's farm at the end of the chapter?
Answer:
Crooks tells Candy to forget he asked.
Question 2: Did Crooks see other Black families when he was a child?
Answer:
He didn't - there wasn't another Black family around for miles.
Question 3: How does Crooks react to Curley's Wife's threat?
Answer:
He stops standing up to her, says "Yes, ma'am", and sits still without looking at anybody.
Question 4: What is Crooks' job?
Answer:
He is the stable buck.
Question 5: At the very end of the chapter, what does Crooks go back to doing?
Answer:
He returns to rubbing liniment into his back. The chapter has come full circle and Crooks is back where
he began: alone.
Question 6: Why doesn't George come into Crooks' room?
Answer:
George is upholding the segregation and doesn't think Candy and Lennie should be in there.Question 7: What does Crooks think about George and Lennie's dream of owning their own place and land?
Answer:
He says that nobody gets any land - it's a hopeless dream lots of people have.
Question 8: Why does Candy hesitate at Crooks' door?
Answer:
Candy has never been in Crooks' room before, presumably because of the segregation.
Question 9: Who sometimes comes in to visit Crooks?
Answer:
Sometimes Slim visits Crooks and chats to him.
Question 10: Where was Crooks born?
Answer:
Crooks was born in California which is where the novel is set.
Question 11: What does Curley's Wife call Candy, Lennie, and Crooks?
Answer:
She says they are the weak ones.
Question 12: Where does Crooks live and sleep?
Answer:
He lives in a little shed off the side of the barn where the horses are kept.
Question 13: What does Curley's Wife threaten Crooks with when he tells her to leave his room?
Answer:
She says how easy it would be to get him lynched.
Question 14: What happened to Crooks to inspire his nickname of Crooks?
Answer:
He was kicked in the back by a horse.Question 15: What does Crooks say when he hears that Candy and George have enough money to buy a farm?
Answer:
He says he would like to work for them, just for his keep.
Question 16: What did Crooks' father own when Crooks was a child?
Answer:
His father owned a chicken farm.
Question 17: What's the light like in Crooks' room?
Answer:
He only has a meager yellow light.
Question 18: What does Crooks read a lot?
Answer:
He reads a mauled copy of the California Civil Code from 1905.
Question 19: Why is Crooks not allowed in the bunk house with the others?
Answer:
He's segregated from them because he's black and the white ranch hands say he stinks.