To Kill a Mockingbird Plot recall Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Plot recall questions

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1. What dare does Dill set Jem during their first summer together?
   Climb in through a window at the Radley place · Touch the outside of the Radley house and run · Knock at the Radley front door and wait there · Leave a note on the Radley porch steps at dusk
2. What do Jem and Scout find in the knothole of the oak at the edge of the Radley lot in Chapter 4?
   Two small figures carved out of soap · Chewing gum, and later two Indian-head pennies · A spelling medal and a ball of grey twine · A pocket watch on a chain, with a knife
3. How do Jem and Dill try to get a message to Arthur Radley?
   By asking Miss Maudie to pass it on for them · By pushing it under the Radley front door · By poking a note at a window with a fishing pole · By leaving a letter inside the tree's knothole
4. Whose case has set the town talking about Atticus by Chapter 9?
   Walter Cunningham, sued over an entailment · Boo Radley, charged after a childhood prank · Dolphus Raymond, accused by his neighbours · Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape
5. Where does Calpurnia take Jem and Scout while Atticus is away at the state legislature?
   To her own church on the edge of town · To Helen Robinson's cabin, taking food · To her son Zeebo's house for the evening · To the courthouse to watch a hearing
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. How does the jury decide Tom Robinson's case?
   They convict him within a few minutes · They fail to agree and are discharged · They acquit him and the judge dismisses it · They convict him after several hours out
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. Who narrates the novel?
    Atticus Finch, recalling his children's youth · Jem Finch, after his broken arm has healed · Jean Louise Finch, looking back on childhood · Charles Baker Harris, many years afterwards
15. What does the trial show about the gap between the court's promise and its practice?
    Equality is promised in law, denied by the jury · The judge is openly hostile to the defence · Tom has no lawyer until the day of trial · No witness is allowed to speak for Tom

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