To Kill a Mockingbird Themes Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Themes questions

The answers and an explanation for each question appear as you play, and on the answer-key page of the printout.

1. What lesson does Atticus draw for Scout from her disastrous first day at school?
   To judge someone you must imagine their position · Reading at home matters more than reading at school · Teachers deserve obedience whatever their methods · Country families should be left to their own ways
2. What is the significance of the blanket Scout finds round her shoulders on the night of the fire?
   Miss Maudie thought of the children before her home · Atticus had watched them more closely than they knew · Arthur Radley left his house to look after them · Nathan Radley had been persuaded to join the crowd
3. What does Miss Maudie explain about mockingbirds after Atticus warns the children off shooting them?
   They are protected by a Maycomb County law · They do nothing at all but make music for people · They drive away crows and other garden pests · They are the only birds Atticus ever shot at
4. What does Atticus's answer reveal when Aunt Alexandra urges him to dismiss Calpurnia?
   He fears Calpurnia would spread talk about them · He thinks no one else in town would take the post · He will decide once the trial has been settled · He counts her as family and will not let her go
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
6. What does Jem conclude about Arthur Radley at the end of his talk with Scout about Maycomb's social ranks?
   Arthur belongs to the lowest rank of all · Arthur is the only decent man left in town · Arthur is kept indoors by his brother Nathan · Arthur stays indoors because he chooses to
7. 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
8. 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
9. Which pair of characters does the mockingbird image come to stand for?
   Tom Robinson and Arthur Radley · Mayella Ewell and Dill Harris · Jem Finch and Walter Cunningham · Calpurnia and Helen Robinson
10. What does Aunt Alexandra believe determines a family's standing?
    How often it attends the town's church · How many sons have been to college · How much it has put by in the bank · How long it has farmed the same land

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