Characters
Tom Robinson's Trial
Famous Lines
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Challenge
100
The narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird...
Who is Scout?
100
The jury's verdict at the end of the trial.
What is guilty?
100
“‘You can just take that back, boy’” (Lee 99).
Who is Scout?
100
The number of Scottsboro Boys...
What is nine (9)?
100
A set of laws that legalized segregation in the South.
What is Jim Crow?
200
A timid recluse who saves Jem and Scout at the end of the novel.
Who is Boo Radley?
200
The item Mayella claimed she asked Tom to "bust up" for firewood.
What is a chiffarobe?
200
“I’d rather you shot tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119).
Who is Atticus?
200
The initial reason why the Scottsboro Boys were arrested...
What is a fight with white boys?
200
The other organization that wanted to help the Scottsboro Boys and feared the Communist Party was too radical...
What is the NAACP?
300
Visits his aunt in Maycomb every summer...
Who is Dill?
300
The reason Tom could not have beat and choked Mayella Ewell...
What is a deformity of his left arm?
300
"I got somethin' to say an' then I ain't gonna say no more. That boy yonder took advantage of me an' if you fine fancy gentlemen don't wanta do nothin' about it then you're all yellow stinkin' cowards..." (Lee 251).
Who is Mayella Ewell?
300
After the first trial, the Supreme Court decided that the Scottsboro Boys did not receive...
What is adequate legal representation?
300
For many Southerners, the second and third Scottsboro trials with Attorney Leibowitz reminded them of...
What is the Civil War?
400
High ranking official in Maycomb who covers up the murder of Bob Ewell.
Who is Heck Tate?
400
When Atticus leaves the courtroom, all the black people...
What is stand up?
400
"If you can learn a simple trick, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view" (Lee 39).
Who is Atticus?
400
The group that provided the Scottsboro Boys with legal representation.
What is the Communist Party?
400
The jury did not listen to Ruby Bates testimony because they thought she had been...
What is bought by the Communists?
500
The child who cusses at Miss Caroline on the first day of school.
Who is Burris Ewell?
500
The person who beat Mayella because he saw her kiss Tom Robinson...
Who is Bob Ewell?
500
"There's some folks who don't eat like us, but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't" (Lee 32).
Who is Calpurnia?
500
Victoria Price and Ruby Bates claimed they were raped to avoid arrest for...
What is hoboing on a train?
500
In 1976, the governor of Alabama granted Clarence Norris a...
What is a pardon?