To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 12-14 Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 12-14 questions

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1. Where does Calpurnia take Jem and Scout while Atticus is away at the state legislature?
   To her own church on the edge of town · To Helen Robinson's cabin, taking food · To her son Zeebo's house for the evening · To the courthouse to watch a hearing
2. What does Scout learn from the way Calpurnia speaks at her own church?
   Calpurnia never taught her son Zeebo to read · Calpurnia suits her speech to her company · Calpurnia is ashamed of how the Finches talk · Calpurnia cannot read as well as she claimed
3. What reason does Aunt Alexandra give for coming to live at the Finch house?
   Atticus asked her to take over from Calpurnia · Finch's Landing has grown too costly to keep up · The children need a woman's influence at home · She wants to watch the trial from close at hand
4. What does Atticus's answer reveal when Aunt Alexandra urges him to dismiss Calpurnia?
   He fears Calpurnia would spread talk about them · He thinks no one else in town would take the post · He will decide once the trial has been settled · He counts her as family and will not let her go
5. Why has Dill run away to Maycomb and hidden under Scout's bed?
   His mother and new father take little notice of him · He has been sent home from his school in Meridian · He wants to be in Maycomb before the trial begins · He has quarrelled with his aunt, Rachel Haverford

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Original questions written for Pagine. This book is in copyright, so questions paraphrase rather than quote it.