To Kill a Mockingbird Characters Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Characters questions

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1. Why does Scout try to explain Walter Cunningham's refusal of the lunch money to Miss Caroline?
   She wants Walter punished for shaming the class · She hopes to be excused from the lesson herself · She knows his family takes nothing it cannot repay · She has been told to speak for the country children
2. What does Miss Maudie tell Scout about Arthur Radley's family?
   They had once been the richest household in Maycomb · They had quarrelled with every family on the street · They moved to Maycomb only a few years before Scout · Their harsh religion saw most pleasures as sinful
3. What does Scout overhear Atticus say to Uncle Jack about the coming trial?
   He hopes his children will ask him, not the town · He expects the jury to acquit on the evidence · He regrets having agreed to take the case · He plans to send them both to Finch's Landing
4. Why does Atticus call Mrs Dubose the bravest person he ever knew?
   She kept her garden going while gravely ill · She lived alone with only a companion to help · She spoke her mind to Atticus without any fear · She died having broken her hold on morphine
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. What does Miss Maudie say to steady Jem the morning after the verdict?
   The appeal courts will certainly reverse it · Some men are trusted with the town's hard work · Maycomb will have forgotten it within a year · Jem is too young to grasp what the jury did
9. 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
10. 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
11. What does Calpurnia give the Finch children that no one else in the novel can?
    A promise to keep the trial from them · A first sight of Maycomb's other half · Their lessons in reading before school · An invitation for their aunt to stay on
12. What is the main change in Jem across the novel?
    He decides to become a lawyer like Atticus · His belief that Maycomb is fair does not last · He comes to share his aunt's view of class · He stops reading and gives up on school

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