Definitions
Women in Mockingbird
Mockingbird Quotes
Important Persons
100

What is feminism (include equality in your definiton)?

The support of women's rights for equality of the sexes.

100

Who is described as "plain-hell" by Scout and who is hated by the children but described by Atticus as "the bravest person he knew?"

Mrs. Dubose

100

How does Harper Lee describe the women during Aunt Alexandra's "circle."

"Fragile"

100

Who was the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on her own?

Amelia Earhart.

200

What is chauvinism?

(Hint: Answer Correctly)

excessive or prejudiced support for one's own cause, group, or gender.

200

Who is described as the neighborhood gossip in Maycomb who saw Bob threaten Atticus?

Miss Stephanie Crawford

200

How do the people of Maycomb see the women at Aunt Alexandra's circle?

They see the women at that meeting as "spoiled"

200

Through her decades of work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and later with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), who emerged as one of the most important women in the civil rights movement?

Ella Baker.

300

Name one thing social equality focuses on.

Education, Income, Class Status.

300

Who is one of the most devoted people in the church in Maycomb, makes Scout dress up like a ham, and gossips with all the other ladies?

Miss Grace Merriweather

300

Who describes Scout as a "tomboy" in the story?

Aunt Alexandra

300

Who continued her writings while actively participating in women's and other civil rights activities while writing and publishing articles in the NAACP journal, Crisis, and Opportunity magazine?

Pearl S. Buck.

400

What is women's rights based on?

(Think simple)

(Give 2 justifiable reasons. Explain your thinking if not one of the answers I put here.)

Legal, political, and social rights for women equal to those of men.

400

Who is concerned with Scout's "advanced" reading capabilities and threatens to stop reading with her dad?

Miss Caroline Fischer

400

Who thinks that the blacks "need to be taught a lesson" after Tom Robinson's trial.

Miss Gates

400

One of the most effective leaders in the women and civil right's movements, and she was the First Lady of the United States, who is this historical figure?

(Daily Double)

Eleanor Roosevelt.


500

Currently, what is the Sustainable Development Goal 5? (include an aspect) 

(Daily Double)

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. (just need one)

500

Who is Mrs. Dubose's caretaker during her passing time and kindly helps Jem with his punishment of reading to Mrs. Dubose?

Jessie

500

Why does Reverend Sykes threaten to church Lula?

She was a trouble-maker and in quote "Got fancy ideas an’ haughty ways"

(State some sort of trouble for credit)

500

Who was the most prolific black women writer in the 1930's who published Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937?

Zora Neale Hurston.