Characters
She is a wise, understanding friend to the Finches who loves her garden.
Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson?
A formal or authoritative pronouncement; Simon Finch "forgot" his teacher's one of these.
What is a Dictum?
This is the name of the "mad dog" Atticus shoots in Chapter 10.
What is Tim Johnson?
"You never really understand a person until you... climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Who is Atticus Finch? (Context: Teaching Scout empathy)
The town and state where the novel mainly takes place.
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
This "poor but proud" boy visits for lunch and pours molasses on his food.
Who is Walter Cunningham?
This adjective describes someone who is "hostile or argumentative."
What is Contentious?
Atticus says it is a sin to kill these because they only make music for us.
What are Mockingbirds?
"It was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first began to part company."
Who is Scout (Jean Louise) Finch? (Context: Referring to Jem returning for his pants)
The major economic period in the 1930s during which the story is set.
What is the Great Depression?
This boy is "hostile, dirty and ignorant" and only stays for the first day of school.
Who is Burris Ewell?
An adjective meaning "showing or feeling active or unmasked contempt."
What is Contemptuous?
This character fills the tree's knot-hole with cement to stop the gifts.
Who is Nathan Radley?
“I hope and pray I can get [them] through it... without catching Maycomb’s usual disease.”
Who is Atticus Finch? (Context: Describing the racism/prejudice of the trial)
Atticus’s old nickname, earned because he was the "deadest shot in Maycomb."
What is Ol' One-Shot?
The "scary guy down the street" who leaves soap dolls and pennies in a tree.
Who is Boo (Arthur) Radley?
A preference or special liking for something; the Radleys' was "keeping to themselves."
What is a Predilection?
Jem is forced to read to this woman daily as punishment for ruining her flowers.
Who is Mrs. Dubose?
“The [family name] never took anything they can’t pay back.”
Jem mistakenly calls the school's "new way of teaching" this system.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
This relative is stern, traditional, and believes Scout should be a lady.
Who is Aunt Alexandra?
This verb means "to find out something with certainty."
What is Ascertaining?
Scout gets in trouble on her first day because she can already do these two things.
What are Reading and Writing?
"There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into." (Spoken by Calpurnia).
Who is Mr. Radley? (The father)
These items, found in the knot-hole, are said to bring "long life 'n' good health."
What are Indian-head pennies?