The Setting
This is the state where Maycomb is located.
What is Alabama?
She is the narrator of the story, aged about six.
Who is Scout?
She spreads gossip around Maycomb.
Who is Miss Stephanie Crawford?
Mr. Radley was rumored to have been stabbed in the leg by this object.
What are scissors?
When Scout doesn't understand what it means to "walk in someone's shoes", Atticus says to gain perspective, she should do this.
What is "climb in someone's skin?"
This man is president of the United States in the first six chapters.
Who is FDR?
What is syrup?
This Maycomb's neighbor's property is described as hell.
Who is Miss Dubose?
The Radley family are largely absent from this weekly gathering in town.
What is church?
"Footwashers" are members of this section of Christianity.
What are Baptists?
This historical period serves as the background for the story.
What is the Great Depression?
Jem plays this sport, as stated in the beginning of the book.
What is football?
She is the strict African-American cook that lives in the Finch household.
Who is Calpurnia?
He is Boo Radley's brother.
Who is Nathan?
While most families in Maycomb are poor, this family is the poorest.
Who are the Ewell's?
During the time that the book takes place, this political party is in charge in the South.
What is the Democratic Party?
Scout pops out of this object after being pushed into the Radley Yard.
What is a tire?
This Maycomb neighbor takes great care of her flowers and yard.
Who is Miss Maudie?
This is Boo's real name.
What is Arthur?
Mr. Radley uses this to keep his son out of prison with African-Americans.
What is skin color/white privilege/etc.?
Maycomb's economy was centered around this.
What is farming?
This is Dill's real name.
What is Charles Baker Harris?
This father spends his money on whisky and neglects his family.
Who is Mr. Ewell?
The nuts that fall from the Radley trees into the school yard are believed by the children to be poisonous.
What are pecans?
In keeping with strict gender roles, women in Maycomb do this in the afternoon.
What is nap?