Jeopardy AllusionsThemesVocabReview Quotes Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Allusions The Cunninghams are country folks, farmers, and the crash hit them hardest.

$100 Answer from Allusions Stock market crash

$200 Question from Allusions …bread lines in the cities grew longer, people in the country grew poorer.

$200 Answer from Allusions The Great Depression

$300 Question from Allusions There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

$300 Answer from Allusions The Great Depression

$400 Question from Allusions Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land…

$400 Answer from Allusions The Civil War

$500 Question from Allusions Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

$500 Answer from Allusions FDR’s 1932 inauguration speech

$100 Question from Themes The sheriff hadn’t the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes, so Boo was locked in the courthouse basement.

$100 Answer from Themes Racism

$200 Question from Themes The jury couldn’t possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson’s word against the Ewells’…

$200 Answer from Themes Racism

$300 Question from Themes It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.

$300 Answer from Themes Coming of age

$400 Question from Themes How do the children react to Atticus’s hidden identity?

$400 Answer from Themes Coming of age

$500 Question from Themes What are some ways we see Scout and Jem “part company”?

$500 Answer from Themes Coming of age

$100 Question from Vocab Until Jem and Dill excluded me from their plans, she was only another lady in the neighborhood, but a relatively benign presence.

$100 Answer from Vocab harmless

$200 Question from Vocab I wasn’t sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose’s assessment of the family’s mental hygiene.

$200 Answer from Vocab offense

$300 Question from Vocab She married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

$300 Answer from Vocab lazy

$400 Question from Vocab She was a less than satisfactory source of palliation, but she did give Jem a hot biscuit-and-butter which he tore in half and shared with me.

$400 Answer from Vocab relief

$500 Question from Vocab When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

$500 Answer from Vocab satisfied

$100 Question from Review How is Scout different from her classmates?

$100 Answer from Review Scout already has more education than her classmates. Her life is not as hard as those of her classmates, and she has the luxury of having a professional father who is well-educated. She is interested in learning where her classmates are more concerned with helping their families survive and where their next meal will come from.

$200 Question from Review Why didn’t the Ewells have to go to school?

$200 Answer from Review If the truant officer enforced the law, their dad would probably go to jail. As bad as things were for the Ewell children, they likely would have been even worse off without their father. Because their home life was so unusual, the authorities bent the rules for them (such as hunting out of season).

$300 Question from Review How does Cal have two identities?

$300 Answer from Review She talks and acts like her black friends and neighbors when she is with them, and she talks and acts more like the white people of Maycomb when she is with them.

$400 Question from Review What does Miss Maudie think of the Radleys?

$400 Answer from Review She believes they have the right to do whatever they want to do as long as they don’t bother anyone else.

$500 Question from Review What is courage according to Atticus?

$500 Answer from Review There is a different kind of courage than physical courage like a man with a gun—courage is knowing you are beat before you start but doing it anyway because it is the right thing to do.

$100 Question from Quotes “He ain’t Company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham.”

$100 Answer from Quotes Scout

$200 Question from Quotes “…but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father.”

$200 Answer from Quotes Miss Maudie

$300 Question from Quotes “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.”

$300 Answer from Quotes Atticus

$400 Question from Quotes “Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.”

$400 Answer from Quotes Miss Maudie

$500 Question from Quotes “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

$500 Answer from Quotes Miss Maudie

Final Jeopardy A finch is a small songbird. Explain the significance of the family’s last name.

Final Jeopardy Answer The Finch family is vulnerable. Scout and Jem will be particularly vulnerable due to their innocence.