Characters
Plot
Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
Quotes
Miscellaneous
100
Who is the narrator of the novel?
Scout Finch
100
Who acts out stories with Scout and Jem?
Charles Baker "Dill" Harris
100
Boo Radley is a symbol of what at the beginning of the novel?
Superstition
100
Who said "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."?
Atticus Finch
100
Who is the author?
Harper Lee
200
Who did Maya Ewell accuse of rape?
Tom Robinson
200
When Jem returns to get his pants, how does he find them?
Mended and hung over the fence
200
What does the mockingbird represent?
Innocence
200
Who said "It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."?
Scout
200
What is the setting?
Maycomb, Alabama 1933-35
300
Who is the sheriff of Maycomb?
Heck Tate
300
Whose house burns down?
Miss Maudie's
300
What is the main theme of the novel?
The coexistence of good and evil
300
Who said "If Uncle Atticus lets you run around with stray dogs, that's his own business"?
Aunt Alexandra
300
What type of novel is "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
A bildungsroman
400
Who is the Finches' neighbor, and the adult friend among the children of Maycomb?
Miss Maudie Atkinson
400
What does Atticus urge the children to do when he stops them acting out the Boo Radley stories?
To see life from another person's perspective before making judgements
400
What does "small-town life" contrast?
The Gothic elements
400
"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Who said this and to whom?
Miss Maudie Atkinson to Scout
400
What is Scout's real name?
Jean Louise Finch
500
Who clashes with Scout over their commitment to propriety?
Aunt Alexandra
500
What happens to the knothole in the tree?
Nathan Radley fills it with cement
500
In the end, what does Boo Radley prove to be the ultimate symbol of?
Goodness
500
"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results." Who is Miss Maudie talking about here?
Nathan Radley
500
What is the major conflict?
Jem and Scout's childhood innocence with which they start the novel is threatened when exposed to the evil side of human nature