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100
He believed in Gandhi's ideology of civil disobedience.
Who is MLK?
100
The 16th St. Baptist Church Bombing occurred in this southern city.
What is Birmingham?
100
A movable item of personal property.
What is a chattel?
100
Atticus defends Tom Robinson, a man accused of this crime.
What is rape?
100
She is the first person narrator of the book.
Who is Scout?
200
He was the most noteworthy member of the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
This event involved the destruction of a church by the KKK and the eventual murder of three civil rights activists.
What is Mississippi Burning?
200
Small or tiny.
What is diminutive?
200
Jem and Scout are rescued by Boo after this man tries to hurt or kill them.
Who is Bob Ewell?
200
He is described as little but old.
Who is Dill?
300
He was killed for flirting with a white woman in Money, Mississippi.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
MLK gave his "I Have a Dream" speech during this event.
What is the March on Washington?
300
A soothing drug.
What is sedative?
300
The Finch family faces some controversy when Scout and Francis fight at this location.
What is Finch's Landing?
300
She moves to Maycomb to help take care of Scout and Jem; she is very concerned with family background and name.
Who is Aunt Alexandra?
400
He was killed in his driveway by Byron de la Beckwith because of his civil rights activism.
Who is Medgar Evers?
400
These three amendments passed soon after Reconstruction began.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
400
A crime punishable by death.
What is a capital crime/ offense?
400
The entire book begins by mentioning this event, which actually occurs at the end of the book.
What is Jem breaking his arm?
400
He briefly holds a WPA job during the course of the book.
Who is Bob Ewell?
500
He was a character in a minstrel show; the period of segregation in the US is named after him.
Who is Jim Crow?
500
Separate but equal became a national policy when this man tried to sit on an all-white streetcar in Louisiana.
Who is Homer Plessey?
500
A statement made by a witness under oath in court.
What is a testimony?
500
Boo Radley is known for all sorts of heinous behaviors, but especially for doing this to his father.
What is stabbing him in the leg?
500
He pretends to be intoxicated so that people have a way to explain his preference for spending time with black people.
Who is Dolphus Raymond?