Characters - Kids
Events
The Radley Place
Setting
Characters - Adults
100
Charles Baker Harris
Who is Dill?
100
Scout found herself dizzy and stunned in front of the Radley Place during this incident.
What is the Tire Incident?
100
Three doors to the south of the Finch home, this house represents the southern boundary of the Finch children's summertime play area.
What is the Radley Place?
100
Chapter one describes this place as "an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it."
What is Maycomb?
100
A legislator and lawyer in Maycomb who is part of an old local family. His wife dies about two years after their second child, a girl, was born. He has a dry sense of humor and has instilled in his children his strong sense of morality and justice.
Who is Atticus Finch?
200
I put syrup on my vegetables.
Who is Walter Cunningham?
200
In Chapter 10, the children learn their father has skills besides being a lawyer when he does this.
What is shoot a rabid dog? (Bonus point: What is the dog's name?)
200
I live in the Radley Place. I am an adult male who Scout and Jem have never seen but they believe, at the beginning of the book, that I am a six and a half feet tall monster who comes out at night.
Who is Boo Radley?
200
The book takes place during a time when the people of Maycomb were not in a "hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with."
What is the Great Depression?
200
A black woman who works as the Finches’ cook, but Atticus considers her family. She is a tough disciplinarian.
Who is Calpurnia?
300
I am almost 10 when the book begins, and I got my pants stuck on a fence trying to get away from the Radley house one night.
Who is Jeremy "Jem" Finch?
300
When he goes back to the Radley Place in the middle of the night after Mr. Nathan Radley has fired a warning shot, Jem finds this.
What is his pants neatly folded and sewed up?
300
I am Boo's older brother, not his dad, but I act a lot like my father.
Who is Nathan Radley?
300
This neighbor's yard is where Scout and Jem first met Dill.
Who is Miss Rachel Haverford?
300
A mysterious person who never sets foot outside his house. I am the subject of the imaginations of Jem, Scout, and Dill who play by acting out rumored parts of my life. Initially considered to be creepy, by leaving little presents for Scout and Jem and helping the kids at key times, the picture of a good man emerges.
Who is Arthur "Boo" Radley?
400
I was sent home from school by Miss Caroline Fisher because I had lice but even though I planned to go home, I told her, "You ain't makin' me go nowhere!"
Who is Burris Ewell
400
Before Miss Maudie's house caught fire, this rare event occurred in Maycomb.
What is it snowed?
400
When I was taken away after my death, Calpurnia said, "there goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into."
Who is Mr. Radley?
400
This house burned down in Chapter 8.
What is Miss Maudie's house?
400
I live across the street from the Finches. I am a widow with a quick wit and an old friend of the Finch family. Outside of their family, I am Scout and Jem's best friend among Maycomb’s adults.
Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson?
500
I'm a young girl but I don't act like a girl by 1930s Alabama standards. I fight with a classmate on the first day of school and with my cousin at Christmas.
Who is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch?
500
In Chapter 9, Scout gets teased meanly by Cecil Jacobs because of something Atticus has agreed to do.
What is represent a black man, Tom Robinson, who has been accused of a crime?
500
Gum, carvings of a boy and girl, a ball of twine, an old spelling bee medal, polished pennies, and an old pocket watch are found here.
What is the knot hole?
500
This is where Scout, Jem, and Atticus spent Christmas in Chapter 9. Scout got in a fight with her cousin Francis.
What is Finch's Landing?
500
I live two doors down from the Finches to the north. I am elderly and in fact am dying. I am also mean, even to the children, and racist. Jem destroys my flowers but makes it up to me by reading to me.
Who is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose?