Vocabulary
Vocabulary II Category
Vocabulary III / Grab Bag
Content Questions
Content Questions II
100
A soft, white powder that is used to make your skin feel dry and smooth.
Talcum
100
Using power over people in a way that is cruel and unfair.
Tyrannical
100
A cleaning rod for small arms.
Ramrod
100
What is Boo's real name?
Arthur Radley.
100
How old is Jem when the action of the novel starts?
Ten years old.
200
Vicious; Evil.
Malevolent
200
An apparition or ghostly figure.
Phantom
200
A frame on which wood is laid for sawing by hand.
Sawhorse
200
Dill tries to impress Scout and Jem when he meets them by telling them that he can . . .
Read.
200
To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated in the first person from whose point-of-view?
Scout.
300
Quiet and secret in order to avoid being noticed.
Stealthy
300
Relating to unpleasant subjects (such as death).
Morbid
300
Why did Heck Tate insist Bob Ewell fell on his own knife?
To cover up for Boo.
300
What’s the importance of Mayella’s bruises being primarily on the right-hand side of her face?
Bruises on her right side indicate that a left-handed person inflicted the wounds.
300
What was Tom’s account of the incident with Mayella Ewell?
She lured him into the house and tried to kiss him. He left immediately.
400
A natural liking for something: a tendency to do or to be attracted to something.
Predilection
400
All the things that a person is able to do.
Repertoire
400
Who said the following quote: “Reason I can’t pass the first grade, Mr. Finch, is I’ve had to stay out ever’ spring an’ help Papa with the choppin’, but there’s another’n at the house now that’s field size.”
Walter Cunningham.
400
What is Tom’s handicap?
His left arm has been rendered useless.
400
What is the jury’s verdict?
Guilty.
500
Dwelled; Lived.
Domiciled
500
Unclear.
Nebulous
500
Who said the following quote: “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
Atticus Finch.
500
What was Scout’s part in the pageant?
A ham.
500
Who insists that Bob Ewell’s death is an accident?
Heck Tate.