characters
Literary terms
Scout
Other
events
100

I use different dialects depending upon where I am.


Calpurnia or Scout

Who is Calpurnia

100

What element of the plot is when characters are introduced and the setting is established?

Rising Action or Exposition

What is "Exposition"

100

What best describes Scout's MAIN conflict?

learning to have empathy for others and learning to walk in their shoes 

or

being able to learn to become friends with girls and become more girly

What is learning to have empathy for other people and being able to "walk around in their shoes"

100

How did Jem lose his pants?

What is they got caught on a barbed-wire fence as he was running away from the Radley house

100

What did Boo Radley do to get in trouble with the law that made his father imprison him for 15 years?

What is he stabbed his father with scissors

200

Atticus and I are in complete agreement about the dignity and rights of mankind. 

Stephanie or Miss Maudie

Who is Miss Maudie

200

What element of plot is this? Scout learns a number of lessons but still struggles with feeling empathy for others.

Conflict or Rising Action

What is "Rising Action"

200

What point of view is this novel?


1st person or 3rd person limited

What is 3rd person limited from Scout's point of view

200

What did Lula from Calpurnia's church make the children realize?

They need to be compassionate for Tom Robinson

or

how to sing by lining (repeating lines from a hymn book)

What is they need to show more compassion for Tom Robinson's future treatment from the white jury. 

200

Why did the "Footwashers" tell Miss Maudie she was "going to go to Hell?"

What is the fact she spends more time outside with her flowers than reading the Bible.

300

I don't understand why Scout refused to wear a pretty, frilly dress

Who is Aunt Alexandra

300

What element of plot is this? "Scout needs to learn how it feels to walk around in someone else's shoes."

Exposition or Conflict

What is "Conflict"

300

But I kept ALOOF from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, spend most of my evenings with her on the front porch" What does Scout imply about being a girl with this statement?

Girls deserve respect or it is insulting to be called a girl

What is being called a girl is insulting

300

What was the snake in Scout's room?

Who is Dill

300

How does the mood of the people in the town change towards Atticus?

What is the people begin to feel negative toward Atticus for representing Tom Robinson

400

I knew the case wouldn't be won from the beginning but I had to give it my best effort.

Who is Atticus

400

According to Scout.."if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at 2:00 am, my funeral would have been held the next afternooon.  Which figurative device is being used in this statement?

Hyberbole or Personification

What is "hyperbole"

400

Why was Scout frustrated with her first school year?

What is "she didn't learn very much and felt she was cheated out of her education"

400

What is the one tone of this novel?

nostalgic and critical 

or

optimistic and carefree

What is nostalgic and critical

400

why doesn't Atticus hunt?

What is he is good at it, and he things he has an unfair advantage to the animals.

500

I gossip a lot because I want people to pay attention to me

Who is Miss Stephanie

500

What is the genre of this novel?

Fantasy or Historical Fiction

What is "historical fiction"

500

What does Aunt Alexandra complain about Scout?

What is she wears overalls instead of frilly dresses

500

What does "Aloof" mean?

honest and caring 

or

distant and standoffish

What is standoffish and distant

500

What did Sheriff Tate and the men come to tell Atticus?

What is Tom Robinson is being moved to the county jail and there may be trouble