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Setting
Characters
Literary Devices
100
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set in this time period
What is The 1930's
100
This person is the author of the well known novel, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Who is Harper Lee? Alex."
100
The setting of the novel is located in this city and state
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
100
This character is a Tomboy who loves to read and hang out with her older brother.
Who is Scout?
100
"Summer is Dill" is an example of this literary device.
what is a metaphor?
200
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird provides a social commentary about civil rights and this famous court trial.
What is the Scottsboro Trial
200
This is the home state of the famous author of To Kill a Mockingbird
What is Alabama?
200
Atticus Finch and his family had lived there for generations, beginning with their great uncle Simon Finch, a fur trapper originally from Cornwall England.
What is Finch's Landing
200
After Boo Radley's father dies, this character moves in to take care of the house
Who is Nathan Radley?
200
Nathan Radley does this to "save" the tree in his front yard from dying.
Q= What is fills it with cement?
300
Social and legal laws set in place to segregate and control black people from around 1877 through the 1960s and beyond
What is Jim Crow Laws
300
Harper Lee's father held the same profession as the main character Scout's father, which is
What is a lawyer?
300
Unlike his ancestor Simon Finch, Atticus does not agree with the former practice of this.
What is slavery?
300
The reader learns that this character lies to cover up the reality of his life, that he doesn't really have a home, and spends time with different family members throughout the year. Every summer he comes to stay in Maycomb.
Who is Dill
300
The children all believe in this type of story about Boo Radley.
What is a myth?
400
Brought on by the 1929 Stock Market Crash causing 16 million Americans to become unemployed at the same time.
What is The Great Depression
400
Harper Lee recently decided to do this upon the fiftieth anniversary of her publication of To Kill a Mockingbird
What is release a sequel?
400
Jem and Scout's friend Dill stays here during the summer?
What is next door/at his Aunt's house?
400
This character has got the whole town upset with Atticus for defending him in court.
Who is Tom Robinson?
400
It is not ok to do this this because they only sing sweet songs for people to enjoy.
What is to kill a mockingbird?
500
A case centered around a biracial civil rights activist Homer A. Plessy who chose to sit in a white only railroad car. The Court ruled in favor of the railroad, and segregation was determined legal.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
500
It has been this many years since she published her one and only novel
Fifty years
500
The Radley house is located
What is on the corner of the main street in town and their backyard meets up with the school yard.
500
Jean Louise Finch is the real name of
Who is Scout
500
Scout struggles with her identity growing up in a southern town that has expectations for young women. She follows after her brother and father, and has a pretty solid sense of self without any southern ideas pushed upon her.
What is a theme in To Kill a Mockingbird