CHARACTERS
VOCABULARY
THE PLOT THICKENS
BACKGROUND
THE PLOT THICKENS 2
100
NARRATOR OF THE STORY.
Who is Scout.
100
To walk slowly.
What is ambled?
100
Maycomb/during the 1930's.
What is the setting?
100
The author of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Harper Lee?
100
The name of the teacher who "whipped" Scout.
What is Miss Caroline?
200
Tells "Big Stories."
Who is Dill?
200
To lessen the intensity of; appease
What is assuage?
200
represents innocence and is a sin to kill.
What is a mockingbird?
200
The award won in 1961 for To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
200
What Miss Caroline tried to give Walter Cunningham?
What is a nickel?
300
Broke his arm at about age 13.
Who is Jem?
300
a preference
What is a predilection?
300
Racial Prejudice, Social Snobbery, Equality, Tolerance.
What are Themes of TKAM?
300
Hometown of the author.
What is Monroeville?
300
Things the Cunninghams paid their debt with.
What is hickory nuts, collards, or anything they grew?
400
Lawyer, good family man, caring.
Who is Atticus?
400
Evil
What is malevolent?
400
To touch the Radley house/gate.
What is the first bet/dare?
400
The trial upon which the story is based.
What is the Scottsboro trial?
400
What Scout anticipated Miss Caroline to do to her outstretched hand.
What is spit in it?
500
Is rumored to be 6 and a half feet tall, eats raw squirrels, has blood stained hands and a scar across his face.
Who is Boo Radley?
500
Convinced of one's importance; arrogant
What is haughty?
500
Age 2
What is when Scout's mother died?
500
Laws in the segregated South that alienated, dehumanized, and made blacks inferior to white citizens.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
500
Because she told the teacher that Cunninghams did not take anything from anyone.
What is why Scout got in trouble on the first day of school?
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