Vocabulary
“...know how they do when they get shinnied up.”
“They don’t usually drink on Sunday, they go to church most of the day...”
drunk
When Atticus was sitting outside of the county jail, who was the one man in the crowd that Scout recognized?
Mr. Cunningham
Which character said this?
"A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man."
Atticus
Why do the group of men want to get past Atticus and into the county jail?
They intend to hurt Tom Robinson
What was one of the topics that our group's cultural awareness slides covered?
Court cases/Social Injustice
"Its windows were merely open spaces in the walls, which in the summertime were covered with greasy strips of cheesecloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Maycomb’s refuse."
Rodents, animals
Name one of the men Atticus was talking to outside of his house and at church the next day about Tom Robinson's case.
Heck Tate, Link Deas, Mr. Avery, Dr. Reynolds
Which character said this?
“Well, Mayella was raisin‘ this holy racket so I dropped m’load and run as fast as I could but I run into th’ fence..."
Burris Ewell
What side of Mayella Ewell's face was bruised?
Her right
What is decided by Atticus and Dill's mother at the beginning of the chapter 15?
Dill can stay with the Finches for a while
"The jury, thinking themselves under close scrutiny,
paid attention; so did the witnesses, thinking likewise."
being examined or watched
The man who was watching over Atticus near the county jail the night before the case.
He is the sole owner, editor, and writer of The Maycomb Tribune.
Mr. Underwood
Which character said this?
“There has been a request, that this courtroom be cleared of spectators, or at least of women and children, a request that will be denied for the time being."
Judge Taylor
Who's yard did the Catholic "foot-washers" pass by and rubuke?
Miss maudie's
What was the court case that our group's historian covered, which involved eight black boys being accused of assaulting two white women?
Scottsboro boys, Powell v. State of Alabama
“Entailments are bad, I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation.”
Group, formation
What was Mr. Underwood's birth name?
HINT: His father named him after a Confederate general.
Braxton Bragg Underwood
You must have both answers: Who is the person talking and who is the person being described?
"With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon."
Scout is talking about Atticus
When Atticus goes to the county jail that night, what does he bring with him?
A newspaper/An electrical cord and light bulb
Atticus swears to the men outside of his house that before Tom Robinson is sent to the chair he will make sure that...
The truth is told
“I thought I might just look in at the courthouse, to see what Atticus’s up to.”
“Better be careful he doesn’t hand you a subpoena.”
an order to appear in court and give testimony
What is Burris Ewell's birth name?
HINT: He is named after a Confederate general, and his full name is said when he is called to the witness stand.
Robert E. Lee Ewell
Which character said this?
“It was not a hundred folks,” she said, “and nobody held anybody off. It was just a nest of those Cunninghams, drunk and disorderly.”
Aunt Alexandra
How many cars arrived at the county jail the night Atticus was outside of it?
Four
What is the question that Atticus pesters Heck Tate with in court multiple times?
"On which side of her face was she hit?"