1. To Kill a mockingbird
Part 1 test review

2. Why did Scout dislike her first day of school?
She had conflicts with the teacher.

3. Why did Uncle Jack become angry with Scout?
She used improper language

4. He wanted the children to know a person of courage
Why did Atticus make Jem read to Mrs. Dubose?
He wanted the children to know a person of courage

5. What did Scout and Jem receive at Christmas?
Air rifles

6. What is the only thing Atticus says is a sin?
Killing Mockingbirds

7. Who is the black man defended by Atticus?
Tom Robinson

8. She understood them and treated them as friends.
Why did the children like Miss Maudie?
She understood them and treated them as friends.

9. Why does Scout beat up Cecil?
Cecil says bad things about Atticus

10. Who does Scout get spanked by for calling her cousin a name?
Jack

11. Who attends school only on the first day?
Burris Ewell

12. Who is Atticus’s sister?
Alexandra Hancock

13. He was trying to hide that he found his pants mended and folded.
Why did Jem remain “moody and silent” after returning at night from the Radley place?
He was trying to hide that he found his pants mended and folded.

14. Who were the other people involved in the Robinson case?
The Ewells

15. Why did the Cunningham family refuse welfare and other help?
They were too proud to accept help from anyone.

16. What does Scout’s Aunt not like that she does?
Eat, Talk, and Dress.

17. Who loves and takes care of the children?
Calpurnia

18. Why did Atticus decide to defend Tom Robinson in court?
He knew that it was the right thing to do.

19. Who is Dill’s Aunt?
Rachel Haverford.

20. Who is the town gossip?
Miss Stephanie Crawford

21. This refers to a period in American history; its purpose was to bring the states back together and to establish the status of emancipated blacks.
Reconstruction

22. Who is Charles Baker Harris?
Dill

23. Who is the “cause” of Scout’s trouble at school?
Walter Cunningham

24. What does Miss Maudie say that people in their right mind never do?
Boast

25. Who cemented the knothole?
Nathan Radley

26. What was the name given to the laws and social customs which defined segregation?
Jim Crow

27. Who is the gardening neighbor?
Miss Maudie

28. The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson made this legal.
Segregation

29. Why was Scout impressed when her father shot the crazed Tim Johnson?
She realized Atticus could do other things besides read.

30. Who is a Pulitzer Prize winning author?
Harper Lee

31. Who was the President credited with ending the Depression?
Franklin Roosevelt