This character pretends to drink liquor to offer people an explanation for why he lives the way he does.
Who is Dolphus Raymond?
100
Atticus goes to the jail to prevent this from happening.
What is the mob lynching Tom Robinson?
100
This symbol represents the idea of innocence in the novel.
What is a mockingbird?
100
Inspiration for the novel came from this famous trial in the 1930s.
What is the Scottsboro trial?
100
List the five levels of social hierarchy that appear in the novel, as discussed in class.
What are the upper class, middle class, lower class, white trash, and African Americans?
200
Scout stops the mob from hurting Atticus or Tom Robinson by doing this.
What is talking to Mr. Cunningham about topics he is interested in?
200
The peculiar thing about Tom which would lead one to believe he had not grabbed and beaten Mayella is this.
What is his left arm is crippled?
200
These two characters represent the mockingbird symbol in the novel.
Who are Tom Robinson and Boo Radley?
200
During the time period in which Lee wrote the novel (late 1950s), the U.S. was involved in this cultural, social and political movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
200
List at least two characteristics that would label someone has upper class.
What are 1) "being white," 2) having connections to the "Old South," 3) being educated, 4) having a professional job (lawyer, doctor, etc.) and 5) having wealth.
300
According to Atticus, Bob Ewell continued to hold a grudge against everyone connected with the Robinson case, even though he won, for this reason.
What is few people in the town actually believe Ewell's story?
300
As they left the pageant, Jem and Scout thought this peer was following them.
Who is Cecil Jacobs?
300
This character is the moral voice of the novel.
Who is Atticus?
300
During the time period of the novel (1930s), the U.S. was involved in what economic period?
What is the Great Depression?
300
Name the social hierarchy characteristics of the upper class that describe the Finches.
What are their skin color, Atticus's education and profession and their connection to the "Old South."
400
Atticus at first thought this person was responsible for Ewell's death.
Who is Jem?
400
Scout was upset at her teacher's indictment of Hitler for this reason.
What is that she condemned Hitler's oppression of and bigotry towards Jewish people but she fails to recognize the town's bigotry toward African Americans and others?
400
Atticus gives Scout this advice about dealing with people.
What is trying to understand things from the other person's perspective and trying to walk in their shoes?
400
BONUS!!!!
Harper Lee was friends with this other famous author.
Who is Truman Capote?
400
Name the social hierachy level in which the Cunninghams fall under.
What is lower class?
500
Mr. Tate said, "Mr. Finch, taking the one man who's done you and this town a great service an' dragging him with his shy ways into the limelight - to me, that's a sin." He's taking about this man.
Who is Boo Radley?
500
Sheriff Tate wanted people to think that Ewell fell on his own knife for this reason.
What is he didn't want to bring any publicity or attention to Boo Radley?
500
Aunt Alexandra tries to impart these values to the children.
What are taking pride in family background and lineage and maintaining appropriate gender roles?
500
List three similarities between the case in the novel and the Scottsboro trials. (Think of the accused, the accusers and the reaction of the public.)
What are 1) African American men are accused of rape, 2) the accusers are of "questionable morals," and 3) the majority of the public believe the accused are guilty despite evidence to the contrary.
500
This event best highlights the problems and rigidity of the social hierarchy in Maycomb.
What is the jury believes the Ewells' word over Tom Robinson, despite the fact that they are "white trash," because they are white and he is black.