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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee Biography

About To Kill a Mockingbird

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Epigraph
Part 1: Chapter 1
Part 1: Chapters 2–3
Part 1: Chapters 4–5
Part 1: Chapters 6–7
Part 1: Chapters 8–9
Part 1: Chapters 10–11
Part 2: Chapters 12–13
Part 2: Chapters 14–16
Part 2: Chapters 17–20
Part 2: Chapters 21–23
Part 2: Chapters 24–26
Part 2: Chapters 27–28
Part 2: Chapters 29–31

Character List

Character Map

Character Analysis

Scout (Jean Louise) Finch
Atticus Finch
Jem Finch
Dill Harris
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson
Aunt Alexandra and Miss Maudie Atkinson
Bob and Mayella Ewell

Critical Essays

Racial Relations in the Southern United States
Comparing To Kill a Mockingbird to Its Movie Version

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1:  What character is sympathetic to the plight of the Jews in Germany but not the African-Americans at home?

a. Boo Radley

b. Atticus Finch

c. Scout

d. Miss Gates
2:  Who taught Calpurnia how to read and write?

a. Atticus

b. Miss Maudie’s aunt

c. Reverend Skyes

d. Scout
3:  What does Scout’s cousin, Francis Hancock, call Atticus?

a. A liar

b. A coward

c. A “nigger-lover”

d. A cockroach
4:  Who tells Jem that he cemented the knothole because the tree in his yard is dying?

a. Nathan Radley

b. Tom Robinson

c. Bob Ewell

d. Jem
5:  How does Tom Robinson die?

a. He kills himself.

b. He is murdered by his accuser’s father.

c. He is killed trying to escape.

d. He dies after many years in prison.
6:  Where is the novel set?

a. Alabama

b. Georgia

c. Mississippi

d. Louisiana
7:  What is Scout dressed up as when she and Jem are attacked?

a. A witch

b. A chicken

c. A ham

d. A princess
8:  Who saves Jem and Scout during the attack?

a. Atticus

b. Bob Ewell

c. Calpurnia

d. Boo Radley
9:  On her first day at school, what makes Scout realize that she's different from other children?

a. She is rich, by the town's standards.

b. She is afraid to speak her mind.

c. She is not prejudiced.

d. She can read and write.
10:  By the end of the novel, Scout realizes that

a. she can be a lady and still be true to herself

b. she is ready for Atticus to treat her as an adult

c. Jem has anger-management issues

d. she can never walk in someone else's shoes
11:  Who says the following: “Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How’s your entailment gettin’ along?”

a. Scout

b. Boo Radley

c. Miss Maudie

d. Atticus
12:  Who says the following: “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

a. Scout

b. Boo Radley

c. Miss Maudie

d. Atticus
13:  Who says the following: “We're the safest folks in the world.”

a. Scout

b. Boo Radley

c. Miss Maudie

d. Atticus



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