1. Go to the http://www.heinemann.co.uk/windmill/sbeck.shtml web site and, using this web site, answer the following questions:

• What was the original title of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men?

• What happened to Steinbeck’s first manuscript of this work?

• For what kind of audience did Steinbeck originally write Of Mice and Men?

• In what year did Steinbeck actually have a completed written manuscript for Of Mice and Men?

• At what time of day or night did Steinbeck usually write?

• What was the name of Steinbeck’s agent?

• When, specifically, was Of Mice and Men published?

• How many copies had the book sold by the end of its first two weeks of publication?

• When Of Mice and Men was made into a Broadway play, how many times was it performed?

• What literary prize did Steinbeck win?

• What year did he die?

1. Go to the http://monte.mvhs.srvusd.k12.ca.us/~mleck/mice/california.html web site and click on "Map of California." Using this web site, answer the following two questions:

• In relation to the San Francisco Bay Area, where is Weed located&endash;north or south of the Bay Area?

• In relation to the San Franciso Bay Area, where is Salinas located&endash;north or south of the Bay Area?

1. Go to the http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/nobel.html web site and, using this web site, answer the following questions:

• In his 1962 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Steinbeck speaks of his intention&endash;during the speech&endash;to behave like what animal? Why?

• What does Steinbeck say literature is as old as?

• Who does Steinbeck call his "great predecessor"?

• What, according to Steinbeck, qualifies a writer for "membership in literature"?

• What New Testament apostle does Steinbeck quote in this speech?

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