To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 24-27 Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 24-27 questions

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1. What news does Atticus bring home during Aunt Alexandra's missionary tea?
   Tom Robinson has been shot dead in prison · Helen Robinson has been turned off her work · Bob Ewell has lost his job on the relief scheme · The appeal has been refused by a higher court
2. What does Scout learn from watching Aunt Alexandra go back to her guests after hearing the news?
   Her aunt prefers the circle to her family · Composure can itself be a kind of courage · Her aunt had never cared about Tom's fate · Grief should never be shown to outsiders
3. How does Mr Underwood's newspaper piece describe Tom Robinson's death?
   As the predictable end of a mishandled appeal · As a warning to the men who sat on the jury · As the senseless killing of a harmless man · As proof that the county jail is badly staffed
4. Why is Scout troubled by Miss Gates's classroom lesson on dictatorship?
   Miss Gates says Maycomb has no prejudice at all · Miss Gates refuses to let Scout mention the trial · Miss Gates praises the jury for its verdict · Miss Gates condemns abroad what she excuses here
5. What does Link Deas warn Bob Ewell to stop doing?
   Following Helen Robinson on her way to work · Prowling at night around Judge Taylor's house · Calling at the Finch house to argue with Atticus · Spreading talk about Atticus at the post office

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