I would say it's inquiry.
Annihilate and decimate both mean to destroy something or someone, but annihilate means to destroy something as a whole, and at a bigger scale, while decimate doesn't have to mean destroying the whole thing.
Eradicate and massacre are both violent words with the intent to convey destruction, but eradicate is a more general term, as massacre is meant to simple destroy/kill a large group of people.
Answer:
At the initial part of the book "Of Mice And Men" Slim described Lennie as a man who still behaves like a child and cannot cause any sort of harm to people. After the fight that took place between Lennie and Curley, Slim bluntly refuse to relieve Lennie of his duties because he valued and appreciated the amount of work done by Lennie in the ranch. Slim also gave Lennie one of his puppies because he knew that Lennie loved soft and small animals.
