Plot Events
This is a rumor the kids hear from a neighborhood gossip about Boo Radley.
What is that Boo stabbed his father in the leg with scissors while working on his scrapbook?
This is the name of the river Simon Finch traveled up when he came to America.
What is the Alabama River?
This is the full name of the narrator, Scout, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book.
Who is Jean Louise Finch?
Identify who said the following quote and explain the context for full credit:
"'We'll do like we always do at home...but you'll see, school is different'"
The speaker is Jem. He says this to Scout on her first day of school when she asks why they can't play together at school like they normally do. This characterizes Jem as it shows the reader him firmly putting up a boundary to be seen as a "man" by his peers at school, not playing with his baby sister.
True or false? To Kill a Mockingbird was the first novel Harper Lee wrote.
False. While it was not the first one she wrote, it was the first to be published, to immediate success.
This is what gave Atticus Finch a "profound distaste" for the practice of criminal law.
What is that his first two clients refused to plead "Guilty" and took a death sentence instead because of their pride and prejudice.
This is the homestead Simon Finch built, on which Alexandra Finch continues to live and manage.
What is Finch's Landing?
This is the ancestor of the Finch family, who came from England to work and build Finch's Landing
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Identify who said the following quote and explain the context for full credit:
"'There goes the meanest man God ever blew breath into'"
The speaker is Calpurnia. She says this quote when Mr. Radley, Boo's father, dies and is brought past the house in his funeral procession. This quote characterizes both Mr. Radley, who was prideful and cruel to his son, and also Calpurnia, who usually keeps her judgments to herself.
This is the name of the movie Dill reenacts for Jem and Scout when they first meet.
What is Dracula?
This is what Dill dares Jem to do.
What is make Boo Radley "come out" / touch the Radley house
Which setting location is being described in the following quote?
"________________ jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house. Walking south, one faced its porch; the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it"
What is the Radley Place?
This is the name of the Finch's cook, who Scout has "epic battles" that are "one-sided".
Who is Calpurnia?
Identify who said the following quote and explain the context for full credit:
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
The speaker in this quote from Chapter 3 is Atticus Finch. He says this to Scout when she complains about her teacher. He explains that empathy, seeing something from someone else's "point of view", is a helpful trick to getting along with people better. This idea is a recurring theme of the novel.
This is the family whose name in Maycomb County is "synonymous with jackass"
Who are the Haverfords?
What is she thinks Scout was being rude and disrespectful to their guest, as Scout was making fun of Walter for "drowning his dinner in syrup".
**DAILY DOUBLE**
This is the name of the county Scout's teacher Miss Caroline Fisher is from, which "seceded from Alabama" during the Civil War.
What is Winston County?
This is the name of the boy who eats dinner with Scout and Jem, and pours syrup over all of his food.
Who is Walter Cunningham?
Identify who said the following quote and explain the context for full credit:
"There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself."
This quote is from the older Scout, narrating Chapter 1. She explains that things moved slowly in Maycomb because of the poverty inflicted by the Great Depression. The allusion to FDR's 1932 inaugural speech at the end refers to the notion that the Depression would hopefully end soon.
This is the event sweeping America in the 1930s that "hit the farmers the hardest".
What is the Great Depression?
Explain both reasons why Scout "starts off on the wrong foot" on her first day of school (2 reasons for full credit)
1) She already knew how to read and write
2) She tries to explain why Walter Cunningham doesn't have a lunch
This is the correct order of locations Simon Finch went through before coming to Maycomb County (names & order for full credit)
1. England (Cornwall)
2. Philadelphia
3. Jamaica
4. Mobile
5. Saint Stephens (Finch's Landing/Maycomb)
This is the name of the "neighborhood scold" who shares gossip about Boo Radley with Scout, Jem, and Dill.
Who is Miss Stephanie Crawford?
Identify who said the following quote and explain the context for full credit:
"'I've no intention of getting rid of her, now or ever. We couldn't operate a single day without Cal."
The speaker is Atticus Finch. He says this to Scout when she complains about Calpurnia scolding her and for liking Jem more than her. Atticus' "flinty" tone expresses how important Calpurnia is to him and to the operation of the family home. He wants Scout to appreciate all of the hard work she does and to treat her with more kindness and compassion.
Atticus explains to Scout that, if he wanted to, Bob Ewell could get a "WPA job". The WPA is one program started as part of this sweeping government initiative to help working-class Americans in the 1930s.
What is the New Deal?