Characters
Important Places
The Trial
Miscellaneous
Quotes
100

The narrator and protagonist of the novel, a tomboy.

Who is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch?

100
The town and state the book takes place in.
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
100
The black man on trial for raping a white woman.
Who is Tom Robinson?
100

Covered Scout with a blanket?

Who is Boo Radley?

100
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. ...Until you climb around inside of his skin and walk around in it."
Who is Atticus? Scout is learning to see things from other people's perspectives. She is growing up.
200
Scout's brother, and playmate. Truly believes Atticus will win the trial.
Who is Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch?
200
Dill's hometown.
What is Meridian, Mississippi?
200
Atticus proves Mayella Ewell was beaten mostly on the right side of her face. Explain the reason this means it couldn't have been Tom.
What is the attacker would have been left-handed and Tom has no use of his left hand?
200

The character who made Jem read to them & passed away shortly after.

Who is Ms. Dubose?

200

Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "Don't you remember me, Mr. Cunningham? You brought us some hickory nuts one morning, remember? We had a talk. I went and got my daddy to come out and thank you. I go to school with your boy. ...Tell him 'hey' for me, won't you?"

Who is Scout? This is important because she is having a normal conversation with Mr. Cunningham while the mob is there to harm Tom and possibly her father. Her simple polite conversation and childlike innocence saved the day.

300

Scout and Jem's summer friend who stays with his Aunt Stephanie.

Who is Charles Baker "Dill" Harris?

300
The Finch children find gifts hidden in the knothole of a tree in front of this house.
What is the Radley house?
300
How Atticus proved Bob Ewell could have been the one to attack his own daughter.
What is he asks Ewell to write his name and he is left-handed?
300

Who is the author of the novel?

Who is Harper Lee?

300
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "I can't use my left hand at all. I got it caught in a cotton gin when I was twelve years old. All my muscles were torn loose."
Who is Tom Robinson? This is important because it shows that Tom has no use of his left hand and proves that if Mayella was beaten on the right side of her face, Tom could not have been the attacker.
400
Bob Ewell's abused, lonely, racist daughter who accuses Tom Robinson of raping her.
Who is Mayella Ewell?
400

What is the setting To Kill A Mockingbird?

What is Maycomb, Alabama

400
The verdict.
What is guilty?
400

This woman's house burnt down in Chapter 8

Who is Ms. Maudie Atkinson
400
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "What's the matter, boy? Can't you talk? Didn't you know your daddy's the best shot in this county?"
Who is Sheriff Heck Tate? This is important because the children have just watched Atticus shoot a mad dog and have learned that he is the best shot in Maycomb County and they thought he couldn't do anything.
500

The sheriff of Maycomb County

Who is Heck Tate?

500

Where the Ewells live.

What is behind the dump near the "black" part of town.

500
This character is utterly crushed by the verdict and loses faith in humanity.
Who is Jem Finch?
500
How does Scout learn that it is important to see from other people's perspectives or "walk in their shoes?"
What is she gets in trouble when she tries to tell Miss Caroline about the Cunninghams and she sees things from Boo's perspective when she walks off his front porch?
500
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "Bob Ewell fell on his knife. He killed himself. There's a black man dead for no reason, and now the man responsible for it is dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. I never heard tell that it's against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did."
Who is Sheriff Heck Tate? This is important because Tate is saying that it's Ewell's fault Tom is dead and now he's dead too. He's also claiming that he fell on his own knife to spare Boo Radley the publicity of people knowing that he saved the children and rid the town of Ewell.
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