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A scene in this novella describes how “a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment” after the death of a character whose body “flopped like a fish.” A character in this novella threatens to get a man with a crooked back “strung up on a tree,” and later bemoans how she married a man who wears a Vaseline-filled glove. In this (10[1])novella, Carlson shoots the handyman (10[1])Candy’s (-5[1])aging dog. In this novella, (10[1])a character who dreams he’ll “live on the fatta the lan’” (10[1])is killed (-5[1])to (10[1])stop him from being lynched for strangling Curley’s wife. (10[1])For 10 points, what John Steinbeck novella ends with George shooting Lennie? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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