Fun Facts!
When was the first (and only) How to kill a Mockingbird movie released?
1962
Who's the person with a broken arm in the beginning?
Jem
Who returns to their hometown when school starts?
Dill
What does Scout find in the backyard of Boo Radley's house?
A stick of gum
When the children try to take a peek at what Boo Radley looks like through a loose shutter at his house what happens?
Someone inside the house come out with a shotgun and fires it.
What was the book originally going to be titled?
"Atticus"
If Dill spends the summer with his aunt, where does he live when he's not with his aunt?
Meridian, Mississippi
Scout uses what to spy on multitudes of children?
A two-power telescope
The blacks and whites are separate themselves in what way in the book?
How they speak
The knothole were the treasures were found was covered in what, when Jem and Scout tried to deliver a message.
Cement
Atticus Finch was based off of who in Harper Lee's life (The Author)?
Lee's father AC Lee
Maycomb, Alabama is loosely based of where?
Monroeville, Alabama. The authors hometown
Scout starts to pummel Walter on the playground because?
Retaliation for her embarrassment.
Dill
To sew well
How many times did the book get denied by publishers until it was accepted?
10 times
What was Jem dared to do to get Boo Radley out of his house?
Enter the yard and touch the house.
How is Scout different from all the other kids?
He already knows how to read and write.
What game did the children come up with and occasionally play, based of another kid?
"The Boo Radley game"
What are the children saying about the mystery person who was leaving gifts for them?
They were discussing the gender of the person, if they were male or female.
Was the author proud of how big the books success was?
No, in fact she describes the success as "frightening", her reaction was “sheer numbness. It was like being hit over the head and knocked cold.”
A swept yard in the south was a sign of what?
A sign of a well-kept home.
Why are outsiders viewed with suspicion?
Because they don't understand "Maycomb's ways".
Scout mostly identifies as who in trying to find out what It means "to be a girl".
Miss Maudie
Why is Jem upset by what happened to the tree.
She never got to thank the person.