To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 18-20 Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 18-20 questions

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1. What does Mayella Ewell say she offered Tom Robinson a nickel to do?
   Mend a hinge on the front door of the house · Carry a heavy box down from a high shelf · Break up an old piece of furniture for firewood · Fetch ice cream for the younger children
2. Why does Atticus have Tom Robinson stand up during Mayella's cross-examination?
   To let Mayella identify him for the record · To prove he is taller than Mayella claimed · To show he bore no marks from a struggle · To show the jury that his left arm is useless
3. Why does Mayella turn hostile when Atticus questions her politely?
   Courtesy is so unfamiliar she takes it as mockery · She resents being questioned before her father · She has been warned that Atticus will trap her · She thinks he is stalling to help his own client
4. Which answer of Tom's does the prosecutor seize on as damaging?
   That he had been in the house before · That he had felt sorry for Mayella · That he ran as soon as Ewell appeared · That he had refused her money that day
5. What does Dolphus Raymond admit to the children outside the courthouse?
   He is related to the Ewells by his first marriage · He paid for Tom Robinson's defence himself · His paper sack holds nothing stronger than cola · He has already heard how the jury will vote

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