Characters
This character is the narrator of the novel.
Who is Scout Finch?
This title creature represents innocence or lack of wrong-doing - it would be a sin to shoot one.
What is a mockingbird?
It is at this location that Scout begins to learn unfairness, as Miss Caroline, forbids her from reading.
Where is school?
This is the name of the young boy that was killed after he had touched the hand and whistled at a white woman, who later claimed that he assaulted her.
Who is Emmett Till?
What is the setting of the story?
Maycomb, Alabama
This is Scout's father, one of the prominent lawyers in Maycomb.
Who is Atticus Finch?
This character is represented by Jem's book The Grey Ghost, wherein the antagonist seems like a scary, bad guy, but actually turns out to be okay in the end.
Who is Boo Radley?
This is the common name for the group of people that gather beneath the jailhouse to kill Tom Robinson before trial.
What is a lynch mob?
This is the name of the actual town that inspired the creation of Maycomb, the town where Harper Lee grew up.
What is Monroeville, Alabama?
This character is the woman who takes care of Dill while he is in Maycomb for the summer.
Tom Robinson is briefly represented by this tiny critter, which Scout seems set on smashing, which sets Jem off on a rage because it "didn't do anything wrong."
What is a roly poly?
This is why Tom Robinson runs, rather than waiting for appeal.
What is allowing a Black man to finally make a decision?
This numerical group was coerced into giving confessions of sexually and physically assaulting a woman in New York, despite never having met each other.
Who are the Central Park Five?
What time period does this story take place?
1930s or The Great Depression
This is the name of Boo's brother who lives at home with him, taking care of him.
Who is Mr. Nathan Radley?
This symbol may represent that there is goodness in everyone, as seen outside Ewell's shack, or that goodness can come from any situation, such as their presence at Miss Maudie's charred home.
What are flowers?
This is the day when Scout gets into a fight with her cousin, Francis, at Finch's Landing over his insulting of Atticus.
What is Christmas?
These young men, accused by women fearing persecution due to their illegal occupation, were arrested in Alabama. Their trial enraged the people of their Alabama town so greatly, the national guard was sent in to defend the courthouse.
Who are the Scottsboro boys?
This is the name of the other novel written by Harper Lee, originally a first draft of the To Kill a Mockingbird book.
What is Go Set a Watchman?
This character is the one who is defending Mayella Ewell in court, calling witnesses to testify against Tom Robinson.
Who is Mr. Gilmer?
The death of Bob Ewell was foreshadowed by this event earlier in the novel, made most clear when Heck Tate says:
“Mr. Finch, there’s just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to ’em. Even then, they ain’t worth the bullet it takes to shoot ’em. Ewell ‘as one of ’em.”"
What is Atticus shooting the rabid dog?
This is the item that Jem snaps in Mrs. Dubose's camellia garden after destroying the flowers.
What is a baton?
Dill was based on this real person whom Harper Lee spent many childhood years with. He was a fellow author who is most known for the book In Cold Blood.
Who is Truman Capote?
This book ranks number 13th (as of 2018) in this category of controversial books.
What are banned books?