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To Kill A Mockingbird Quiz

Question 1 of 21

1

The narrator of the story is?

Select one of the following:

  • Scout

  • Jem

  • Atticus

  • Boo

Explanation

Question 2 of 21

1

The Ewell family is?

Select one of the following:

  • One of the poorest, least educated families in Maycomb

  • Highly respected in town

  • A family of both black and white people

  • Supportive of equal rights for all races

Explanation

Question 3 of 21

1

The first chapter focuses on telling stories. This primarily serves to:

Select one of the following:

  • Tie each of the individual characters to their family and history

  • Mimic the random thoughts in Scout's mind

  • Lengthen the novel

  • Make the story appealing to a younger audience

Explanation

Question 4 of 21

1

What is the best reason for why Atticus accepts a case that he knows he will lose?

Select one of the following:

  • To maintain his conscience and his integrity

  • Because he needs money

  • Because he is befriended with the Robinson family

  • To raise a furore within the town of Maycomb

Explanation

Question 5 of 21

1

When Jem and Scout get their air guns, what does Atticus tell them it is a sin to shoot?

Select one of the following:

  • A Mockingbird

  • Dogs

  • BlueBirds

  • Tin cans

Explanation

Question 6 of 21

1

Mr.Radley's plugging up to knot-hole best symbolises which of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • The loss of childhood pleasure and the transition to adulthood responsibilites

  • The withdrawal of Boo Radley from society forever

  • The futile to prolong life by patching up deadly wounds

  • The sealing off of generosity

Explanation

Question 7 of 21

1

Why does Atticus know that he will lose his case with Tom Robinson?

Select one of the following:

  • Because it it the word of a black man against the word of a white man, and the jury will listen to the white man

  • Because the judge is biased

  • Because Tom actually committed the rape, and everyone in town knows it

  • Because the Ewells are well respected in the town

Explanation

Question 8 of 21

1

Scout is unusual for a first grader because?

Select one of the following:

  • She can read and write

  • She can out run all the boys

  • She speaks a foreign language

  • She is taller than all the other children

Explanation

Question 9 of 21

1

Which two characters are the "outcasts" of the novel, by Maycomb society?

Select one of the following:

  • Boo Radley and Tom Robinson

  • Jem and Scout

  • Boo Radley and Maudie Atkinson

  • Calpurina and Aunt Alexandra

Explanation

Question 10 of 21

1

What is the reason for the author's choice of a young narrator?

Select one of the following:

  • All of them

  • To allow the story to be presented by someone who cannot take an active role

  • To remove moral bias from the story

  • To allow the narrator to mature as the story progresses

Explanation

Question 11 of 21

1

The school setting in the second chapter allows Lee to?

Select one of the following:

  • Introduce the reader to the various families in Maycomb country

  • Denounce the segregation of black and whites

  • Show the general disrespect that children have for authority

  • Blame the education system for the incidents which follow in the novel

Explanation

Question 12 of 21

1

The novel's action takes place in?

Select one of the following:

  • 1930s

  • 1960s

  • 1940s

  • 1980s

Explanation

Question 13 of 21

1

How does Atticus demonstrate that Tom's right hand is the one he uses?

Select one of the following:

  • Throws a cup at him

  • Uses a toffee hammer to show his left hand doesn't work

  • Gets him to throw a baseball

  • Arm-wrestle him

Explanation

Question 14 of 21

1

How does Mr. Cunningham pay for his legal work?

Select one of the following:

  • With Nuts

  • With money

  • In labour

  • Protecting his children

Explanation

Question 15 of 21

1

How did Tom Robinson injury his left hand?

Select one of the following:

  • Caught in a cotton gin

  • Trapped in a door

  • Ran over by a car

  • By fighting someone

Explanation

Question 16 of 21

1

Whats is Atticus' old nickname?

Select one of the following:

  • One-shot finch

  • Finch the Lynch

  • The Lawyer

  • The Boss

Explanation

Question 17 of 21

1

Complete this quotation from the novel: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view..."

Select one of the following:

  • "until you talk to him and hear his story."

  • "until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

  • "until you walk a day in his shoes."

  • "until you see things through his eyes."

Explanation

Question 18 of 21

1

How is the defendant proven to be innocent?

Select one of the following:

  • He wasn't in town on the night of the incident

  • He was at work on the night of the incident

  • He can't use his left hand

  • Doesn't know where the plaintiff lives

Explanation

Question 19 of 21

1

Which of the Finch's neighbours does a lot of gardening?

Select one of the following:

  • Miss Rachel Haverford

  • Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose

  • Miss Stephanie Crawford

  • Miss Maudie Atkinson

Explanation

Question 20 of 21

1

What is in Dolphus Raymond's brown paper bag?

Select one of the following:

  • Cola

  • Beer

  • Orange Juice

  • Rum

Explanation

Question 21 of 21

1

Who attacks Scout and Jem on their way back from the pageant?

Select one of the following:

  • Tom Robinson

  • Bob Ewell

  • Charles Baker Harris

  • Hector Tate

Explanation

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