To Kill a Mockingbird

A quiz on some key aspects of T.K.A.M.  Include some questions on the details of the story, some questions on quotations, and some questions on context.

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  • Created on: 07-05-11 11:58
Why does the mob disband outside Maycomb Jail instead of lynching Tom Robinson?
Because Scout forces Mr. Cunningham to see things from Atticus
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Mayella Violet Ewell is how old when the trial takes place?
Nineteen
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Who says: "the way he said it made me sick, plain sick."?
Charles Baker Harris
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Who says: "I thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that's what they seemed like."?
Jeremy Atticus Finch
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Who does Scout describe as: "analogous to Mount Everest. Throughout my life she was cold and there."?
Aunt Alexandra
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Who says: "they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live"?
Mr. Dolphus Raymond
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[Rich families (Finches) > White townspeople > Poor farmers (Cunninghams) > 'Trash' (Ewells) > Black community] is the basic social heirachy of Maycomb. True or false?
True
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Whose morals does Scout bring to question when she wonders how they can hate Hitler but be "ugly about folks right at home"?
Miss Gates
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Whose eating habits does Scout criticise at the dinner table early in the novel?
Walter Cunningham
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What is Scout's purpose for retelling the events of the novel to us?
She wishes to tell us how Jem got his arm broken.
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What is the most substantial and supporting piece of evidence Atticus uses in the trial?
Most of Mayella's injuries are on her right side and would have been caused by someone who is left-handed; Tom Robinson's left hand was crushed when he was a child.
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Who is "the same on the streets as he is at home"?
Atticus Finch
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Although we are never told explicitly, it is intimated that _____ assaults Mayella. Who is it?
Robert Ewell
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Who says: "he's the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long" . . . "just a baby-step, but it's a step." in response to the trial's verdict?
Miss Maudie Atkinson
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Bob Ewell is stabbed with his own kitchen knife. True or false?
False
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Mayella Violet Ewell is how old when the trial takes place?

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Nineteen

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Who says: "the way he said it made me sick, plain sick."?

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Who says: "I thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that's what they seemed like."?

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Who does Scout describe as: "analogous to Mount Everest. Throughout my life she was cold and there."?

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