Setting
What is the name of the town that the story is set in?
Maycomb County
The narrator and protagonist of the story. She is intelligent and, by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy.
"Scout" Jean Lousie Finch
What is the biggest lesson Scout learns in the first five chapters?
Empathy
"Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o' clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum."
Simile
"I never went to school," he said, "but I have a feeling that if you tell Miss Caroline we read every night she'll get after me, and I wouldn't want her after me.
Atticus
What time period was the novel written in?
1930's
Scout’s brother and constant playmate at the beginning of the story. A typical American boy, refusing to back down from dares and fantasizing about playing football.
Jem Finch
What does Scout find first in the knothole in the tree by the Radley house?
Chewing gum
"Your name's longer'n you are. Bet it's a foot longer."
Metaphor
"A good home remedy for-- Burris, I want you to go home and wash your hair with lye soap. When you've done that, treat your scalp with kerosene."
Miss Caroline
What is the name of the school Scout and Jem attend?
Maycomb school
Scout and Jem’s father, a lawyer in Maycomb descended from an old local family. A widower with a dry sense of humor, he has instilled in his children his strong sense of morality and justice.
Atticus Finch
What does Miss Caroline tell Scout when she learns she is literate?
That her father should not be teaching her how to read and write anymore.
"Let's not let our imaginations run away with us, dear"
Personification
"There's some folks that don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?"
Calpurnia
What state is Maycomb located in?
Southern Alabama
The Finches’ Black cook. She is a stern disciplinarian and the children’s bridge between the white world and her own Black community.
Calpurnia
What game do the children come up with that is different from the ones they have played before?
Boo Radley
"--Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Metaphor
"That's okay, ma'am, you'll get to know all the country folks after a while. The Cunninghams never took anything they can't pay back-- no church baskets, and no scrip stamps. They never took anything off of anybody, they get along with what they have. They don't have much, but they get along on it."
Scout
Whose house has this description?
"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-grey yard around it. Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the Veranda; oak trees kept the sun away. The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard-- a "swept" yard that was never swept-- where Johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco grew in abundance."
The Radley place
Jem and Scout’s summer neighbor and friend. He is a confident boy with an active imagination. He becomes fascinated with Boo Radley and represents the perspective of childhood innocence throughout the novel.
Dill
What happens to Jem's pants at the end of chapter 5?
He loses them in the fence escaping the Radley place. Someone has mysteriously sewn them up.
"I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system..."
Metaphor
"I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain't so sure now!"
Jem