To Kill a Mockingbird Final Test: Whole-Novel Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird Whole Novel questions

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

1. 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
2. How does the novel divide its material between its two parts?
   Part One is told by Jem, Part Two by Scout · Part One covers a year, Part Two a single week · Part One is set in Maycomb, Part Two in Meridian · Part One is the Radley years, Part Two the trial
3. 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
4. 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
5. What connects Mrs Dubose's month of reading aloud with Atticus's conduct at the trial?
   Both show Jem the value of keeping promises · Both show the old families still run the town · Both show courage kept up without reward · Both show that Maycomb respects obstinacy
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Why does Dill matter to the novel beyond the Radley games?
   He brings news that changes Tom's case · He persuades Atticus to let them hear it · His tears in court show the plain wrong of it · He gives Scout her first lesson in people
10. What does the adventure story Atticus reads aloud on the last night echo?
    A child who runs from a cruel stepfather · A trial in which an innocent man is convicted · A father who faces a mob for a neighbour · A boy blamed for mischief who proves harmless

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