To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 28-31 Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 28-31 questions

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1. What is Scout wearing when she and Jem are attacked on the way back from the school pageant?
   A bedsheet cut for the part of a ghost · A stiff wire costume shaped like a ham · Jem's old overalls and a pair of boots · Her aunt's best coat over a nightdress
2. How does Jem come out of the attack under the trees?
   Unhurt, but unable to find Scout · Knocked out, left at the schoolyard · With a badly broken arm, carried home · With a knife wound to his side
3. How does Scout come to understand who the quiet man in the corner of Jem's room is?
   Dr Reynolds says a neighbour fetched him · Heck Tate tells her who carried Jem home · Aunt Alexandra points him out to her · She sees him as Atticus speaks his name
4. Why does Heck Tate insist that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife?
   To keep Arthur Radley out of the town's gaze · To protect Jem from a charge of manslaughter · To spare the Ewell children a public inquest · To save Atticus from defending his own son
5. What does Scout understand while standing on the Radley porch at the end of the novel?
   That Arthur had watched her from the window · How the street and its years looked to Arthur · That she will never see Arthur Radley again · That Jem had guessed the truth years before

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