Book Knowledge Who is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer Harper Lee
Book Knowledge What is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird? (City and State)
Answer Maycomb, Alabama
Book Knowledge What is Scout’s real name?
Answer Jean Louise
Book Knowledge Which is not a type of irony? A. Verbal B. Symbolic C. Dramatic D. Situational
Answer B) Symbolic
Book Knowledge Which is an example of verbal irony? A. Someone tells a joke that isn’t funny. B. You tell the truth even though you probably shouldn’t. C. You don’t believe someone and you say, “Yeah…right!” D. All of the above.
Answer C) You don’t believe someone and you say, “Yeah…right!”
Book Knowledge What did Dill dare Jem to do?
Answer Touch the Radley house.
Book Knowledge Why did Jem ruin all of Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes?
Answer Mrs. Dubose insulted his father for defending blacks.
Book Knowledge What were Miss Caroline’s two mistakes on the first day of school?
Answer Offering Walter Cunningham lunch money and telling Burris Ewell to go home to take care of his cooties.
Book Knowledge What was Scout’s first “crime” at school?
Answer She already knew how to read.
Book Knowledge What does Miss Maudie think of the Radleys? A. They should all be sent to prison B. They scare her and she believes they are dangerous. C. They all need a bath. D. They have a right to their privacy just like everyone else.
Answer D) They have a right to their privacy just like everyone else.
Book Knowledge What does Jem notice about his pants when he goes back to get them?
Answer They are mended and folded over the fence.
Book Knowledge What does Scout notice about Calpurnia when she accompanies her to church?
Answer Calpurnia speaks differently around black people.
Book Knowledge What lesson do Dill and Scout learn from Dolphus Raymond?
Answer People aren’t always as they appear.
Book Knowledge What main piece of evidence indicated Tom Robinson’s innocence?
Answer Tom’s left hand is useless and Mayella’s injuries would have been caused by a left-handed person.
Book Knowledge What did Scout say indicated the jury’s final verdict? A. One of the jury members scowled at Tom and Atticus. B. None of the jury members would look at Tom. C. She overheard them in the deliberation room. D. None of the above.
Answer B) None of the jury members would look at Tom.
Book Knowledge What made a man “trash” according to Atticus?
Answer Cheating a black man.
Book Knowledge Who killed Bob Ewell?
Answer Boo Radley.
Book Knowledge Who does Heck Tate say killed Bob Ewell?
Answer Heck says that Bob Ewell accidentally killed himself by falling on his knife.
VOCABULARY! cannot be heard
Answer inaudible
VOCABULARY! something that is given as payment for a service or a loss
Answer compensation
VOCABULARY! words spoken in some kind of ritual
Answer incantations
VOCABULARY! something that originated where it was found
Answer indigenous
VOCABULARY! a very poor person
Answer pauper
VOCABULARY! strangely unusual; odd personality
Answer eccentric
VOCABULARY! acceptance of something without doubt or protest
Answer acquiescence
VOCABULARY! appropriate for church
Answer ecclesiastical
VOCABULARY! wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
Answer malevolent
VOCABULARY! not clearly understood or expressed
Answer obscure
VOCABULARY! stooped to a lower level
Answer condescended
VOCABULARY! authoritative statements
Answer pronouncements
VOCABULARY! unlikely to take place or be true
Answer improbable
VOCABULARY! a focus of public attention
VOCABULARY! limelight
VOCABULARY! to keep in existence
Answer sustain
VOCABULARY! deeply thoughtful
Answer pensive
VOCABULARY! quarrelsome; disagreeable
Answer cantankerous
VOCABULARY! a formal scolding or punishment
Answer reprimand
VOCABULARY! people who act the opposite of their stated beliefs or feelings
Answer hypocrites
VOCABULARY! does not stand out or attract attention
Answer inconspicuous
VOCABULARY! Sneaky; secretive
Answer stealthy
VOCABULARY! moved unsteadily
Answer teetered
VOCABULARY! irritated or angered by something
VOCABULARY! irked
VOCABULARY! occurring later or after
Answer subsequent
VOCABULARY! incapable of failing
Answer infallible
VOCABULARY! serious danger
Answer peril
VOCABULARY! avoidance of something
Answer evasion
Characters Helen Robinson’s boss; tries to defend her from Bob Ewell.
Answer Link Deas
Characters The town gossip.
Answer Miss Stephanie Crawford
Characters A wealthy white man who lives with his black mistress and mulatto children. He pretends to be a drunk so that the citizens of Maycomb will have an explanation for his behavior.
Answer Dolphus Raymond
Characters The Finch family cook.
Answer Calpurnia
Characters Old woman who yells at Jem; she is addicted to morphine.
Characters Mrs. Dubose
Characters Atticus’ sister; wants Scout to be a lady.
Answer Aunt Alexandra
Characters Open-minded neighbor who Jem and Scout consider to be their only adult friend.
Answer Miss Maudie
Characters Scott’s first grade teacher.
Answer Miss Caroline Fisher
Characters Classmate of Scout; cannot afford lunch one day at school and accidentally gets Scout in trouble.
Answer Walter Cunningham
Characters This person was allegedly raped by Tom Robinson.
Answer Mayella Ewell
Characters Scout and Jem’s summertime neighbor.
Answer Dill
Characters Puts his daughter up to telling the authorities that she was raped by Tom Robinson. Attacks Jem and Scout and is killed.
Answer Bob Ewell
Characters Jem and Scout’s mysterious neighbor who in fact turns out to be a normal person.
Answer Arthur “Boo” Radley
Characters A black man accused of raping a white woman.
Answer Tom Robinson
Characters The sheriff of Maycomb and a major witness at Tom Robinson’s trial.
Answer Heck Tate
Characters Scout and Jems father; a lawyer who believes in truth and justice regardless of race or social class.
Answer Atticus Finch
Characters A tomboy and the narrator of the novel.
Answers Scout Finch
Characters Scout’s brother who matures drastically over the course of the novel.
Answers Jem Finch
Quotes Who said: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”?
Answer Atticus said this – he is explaining this to Scout in Chapter 3 after she tells him about her bad day at school with Miss Caroline. It is important because Scott uses this piece of advice when considering the situations of other for the test of the book.
Quotes Who said: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy... but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”?
Answer Miss Maudie says this – In Chapter 10, Scout is thinking about what Atticus told Jem – that “it’s a sin to kill a mockinbird.” Miss Maudie says this as a response showing that she agrees with Atticus. This quote is important because the mockingbird in this sense symbolizes good people who are destroyed by evil or harmed for doing things that they never really did.
Quotes Who said: “As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”?
Answer Atticus says this– In Chapter 23, Atticus is trying to console Jem when he is upset about the Jury’s verdict. This quote is important because Atticus is recognizing Jem’s level-headedness, but still reminding him that he must never forget as he grows up to treat all people fairly.
Quotes Who said: ““I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in his house all this time…it’s because he wants to stay inside”?
Answer Jem says this – In Chapter 23, Scout and Jem are discussing the differences between people. Jem is trying to make sense of it, but decides that the world is so complicated and confusing and that is why Boo Radley chooses to stay shut up in his house.
Quotes Who said: “The thing about it is our kind of folks don't like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don't like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the colored folks”?
Answer Jem says this– In Chapter 23, this is the beginning of Jem and Scout’s conversation about the differences between people. Jem says prior to this that there are four types of folks in the world (or at least in their world of Maycomb County): ordinary people like them and their neighbors, the kind like the Cunninghams, the kind like the Ewells, and the Negroes.