SETTING
CHARACTER FACTS
LAWMEN AND LAWBREAKERS
THE ERA
WEIRD WORDS
100
This state serves as the location of this book and borders Mississippi,Georgia, and Tennessee. It is also word in the title of a world famous Lynyrd Skynyrd song
What is Alabama?
100
This is the profession of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. When someone breaks a law they usually have to hire a person of this profession to represent them in court.
What is an lawyer?
100
The crime for which Tom Robinson is framed.
What is Rape?
100
A method of communication that was not available to the majority of the population at during this time period.
What is the telephone?
100
A word that traditionally means body louse but has turned into a children's term for an imaginary germ that is transmitted by someone with it.
What is cooties?
200
This river is the second longest river in the world and runs through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. And is also featured in To Kill A Mockingbird.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
The name of the main character in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
What is Jean-Louise Finch?
200
The person who accuses Tom Robinson of attacking her.
Who is Mayella Ewell?
200
The reason why the farmers in the book were so poor.
What is The Great Depression?
200
A term referring to someone who is extremely obnoxious or arrogant.
What is the definition of snot-nosed?
300
This decade lives in infamy because of the stock market crash of 1929. This earned it the name "The Great Depression." It also serves as the time period for this book.
What is the 1930s?
300
This is the grade that Jeremy Finch (Scout's brother) is in at this time in the book. It is also the highest grade in this school.
What is 6th grade?
300
The name of the man that Bob Ewell frames because he kissed his daughter.
What is Tom Robinson?
300
A term that refers to the separation of people based on their race.
What is Racial segregation?
300
A word referring to something strange or odd.
What is the definition of queer?
400
This is the name of the fictional town in To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is Maycomb?
400
This is the number of children that Bob Ewell has in To Kill A Mockingbird.
What is 8 children?
400
Bob Ewell's full name Hint: It is also the name of a famous confederate general.
What is Robert E. Lee Ewell?
400
This event ushered in the horrible times of poverty during the 1930s known as the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash?
400
A very out of date word that refers to a large vehicle that can hold many people.
What is a jitney?
500
This city is the Capital of the State in which the book To Kill A Mockingbird takes place.
What is Montgomery?
500
This is the State where Dill Harris lives during the school year in To Kill A Mockingbird. The state is also famous for having a river named after it.
What is Mississippi?
500
The reason why Tom Robinson could not commit the crime
What is his left arm was severely crippled?
500
This word refers to how Walter Cunningham was forced to pay off his debt to Atticus because of poverty due to the Depression.
What is bartering?
500
An elaborate practical joke in which an unwilling person is sent to find something that doesn't exist
What is a snipe hunt?
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