To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 15-17 Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 15-17 questions

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1. What brings the men from Old Sarum to the Maycomb jail at night?
   They want Atticus to withdraw from the case · They mean to take Tom Robinson from his cell · They have come to warn Atticus about Bob Ewell · They are looking for the newspaper office
2. What finally breaks up the crowd outside the jail?
   Jem refuses to leave his father at the door · Mr Underwood shows a shotgun at his window · Scout talks to Mr Cunningham about his son · Heck Tate arrives and orders the men home
3. The morning after the jail, what does Atticus tell the children about mobs?
   A mob is only dangerous when it has a leader · A mob can only be faced down by the sheriff · A mob never does what its members intended · A mob is always made of people you may know
4. Where do Jem, Scout and Dill sit to watch the trial?
   In the balcony, among the black spectators · On the courthouse steps, listening at a door · Behind the lawyers at the front of the room · In the jury box, before the jury is sworn
5. What is Atticus establishing when he gets Bob Ewell to write his name in court?
   Ewell never saw inside the room he describes · Ewell favours his left hand, as the bruises do · Ewell can barely write, so his word is unsafe · Ewell has changed his story since Tate's visit

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