Characters
Plot
Quotes
Quotes 2
Miscellaneous
100
She is the narrator of the story. (nickname and full name)
Who is Scout (Jean Louise Finch)?
100
Tom Robinson is accused of this crime against this person.
What is raping Mayella Ewell?
100
"I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds.  Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Who is Atticus Finch?
100
“Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.”
Who is Jean Louise (Scout) Finch?
100
This disease caused Atticus to shoot the dog.
What is rabies?
200
He is a tall-tale teller from Meridian, spending his summers in Maycomb.
Who is Dill?
200
This is the holiday when Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout.
What is Halloween?
200
“I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time…it’s because he wants to stay inside."
Who is Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch)?
200
“Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em…”
Who is Tom Robinson?
200
Mr. Dolphus Raymond drinks this in a brown paper bag.
What is Coca-Cola?
300
A character who shows great maturity because of his/her conversations with Atticus about social classes and understanding of how prejudice and evil exists in the world.
Who is Jeremy (Jem) Atticus Finch?
300
This causes Dill to run away from home.
What is his parents neglect him and do not seem interested in him.
300
“You can pet him, Mr. Arthur, he’s asleep. You couldn’t if he was awake, though, he wouldn’t let you…” “Go ahead.”
Who is Scout (Jean Louise Finch)?
300
“It tears him to pieces. He doesn’t show it much, but it tears him to pieces. I’ve seen him when—what else do they want from him, Maudie, what else?”
Who is Aunt Alexandra?
300
This is where Aunt Alexandra lives (before moving in with Atticus).
What is Finch’s Landing?
400
“A thick-bodied girl accustomed to strenuous labor,” she took care of seven children while enduring abuse from an alcoholic father.
Who is Mayella Ewell?
400
The setting of the novel (town, state, decade), and the historical event occurring during this time across the U.S.
What are Maycomb, Alabama; 1930’s; and The Great Depression?
400
“Well, I run around the house to get in, but he run out the front door just ahead of me. I sawed who he was, all right.
Who is Robert E. Lee Ewell?
400
“It was just him I couldn’t stand. That old Mr. Gilmer doin’ him thataway, talking so hateful to him…the way [he] called him ‘boy’ all the time and sneered at him…”
Who is Charles Baker (Dill) Harris?
400
“You know what’s going to happen as well as I do, Jack, and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb’s usual disease.” What disease is Atticus referring to?
What is racism?
500
He is a “mockingbird” because he simply stays inside his house and does not harm anyone; however, the whole town seems to think he is crazy, and the kids continuously harass him at home. (Nickname and full name)
Who is Boo (Arthur Radley)?
500
An example of a racist hypocrite(s)
Who is Ms. Caroline Gates? or Who are the women of the Missionary Circle?
500
“Gracious child, I was raveling a thread, wasn’t even thinking of your father, but now that I am I’ll say this: Atticus is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.”
Who is Maudie Atkinson?
500
“You’re not gonna change any of them by talking right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”
Who is Calpurnia?
500
According to Atticus’ final statement in the trial, this is the only crime that was committed. (hint: not legal, but social)
What is a white girl “tempted a Negro”?