Characters
Stays with his Aunt Rachel every summer in Maycomb
Dill
Scout and Jem's dad
Atticus
Dill dared Jem to do this.
Touch the Radley house
Who is defending Tom in court?
Atticus
She refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, and was arrested
Rosa Parks
The Finch family cook
Calpurnia
Scout's real name
Jean Louise
Boo did this to his dad
Stabbed him with scissors
Person accusing Tom of a crime.
Bob Ewell
Black boy from Chicago who went to Mississippi in 1955 and was tortured and killed for having allegedly flirted with a white woman
Emmet Till
Scout's first grade teacher
Miss Caroline
Jem's real name
Jeremy
Boo's real name
Arthur
The crime Tom is accused of doing
Rape
Black and white people who sat together on buses to protest segregation
Freedom Riders
A Cunningham who didn't have money for lunch
Walter
Atticus' sister who thinks Scout isn't girly enough
Aunt Alexandra
What do gum and pennies have to do with the Radleys?
Scout and Jem found them in the tree in the Radley yard
Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird?
They don't do anything to hurt us. They only make music for us to enjoy.
Name given to the day police attacked marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, trying to see the governor about civil rights violations.
Bloody Sunday
Dirty kid with lice
Burris Ewell
Atticus' brother who is a doctor
Uncle Jack
Miss Maudie says this is the reason Boo doesn't come out
He doesn't want to come out/ too much religion
Why is Calpurnia's church collecting money for Tom's wife Helen?
No one wants to hire Helen because of what Tom is accused of having done.
What did it take in 1957 so that 9 black students could attend Central High School - an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
President Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect them.