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20 points To Kill A Mockingbird Quiz
Vanessa Vanessa
Quiz by Vanessa Vanessa, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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The narrator of the story is?
Answer
  • Scout
  • Jem
  • Atticus
  • Boo

Question 2

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The Ewell family is?
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  • One of the poorest, least educated families in Maycomb
  • Highly respected in town
  • A family of both black and white people
  • Supportive of equal rights for all races

Question 3

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The first chapter focuses on telling stories. This primarily serves to:
Answer
  • Tie each of the individual characters to their family and history
  • Mimic the random thoughts in Scout's mind
  • Lengthen the novel
  • Make the story appealing to a younger audience

Question 4

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What is the best reason for why Atticus accepts a case that he knows he will lose?
Answer
  • To maintain his conscience and his integrity
  • Because he needs money
  • Because he is befriended with the Robinson family
  • To raise a furore within the town of Maycomb

Question 5

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When Jem and Scout get their air guns, what does Atticus tell them it is a sin to shoot?
Answer
  • A Mockingbird
  • Dogs
  • BlueBirds
  • Tin cans

Question 6

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Mr.Radley's plugging up to knot-hole best symbolises which of the following?
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  • The loss of childhood pleasure and the transition to adulthood responsibilites
  • The withdrawal of Boo Radley from society forever
  • The futile to prolong life by patching up deadly wounds
  • The sealing off of generosity

Question 7

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Why does Atticus know that he will lose his case with Tom Robinson?
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  • Because it it the word of a black man against the word of a white man, and the jury will listen to the white man
  • Because the judge is biased
  • Because Tom actually committed the rape, and everyone in town knows it
  • Because the Ewells are well respected in the town

Question 8

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Scout is unusual for a first grader because?
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  • She can read and write
  • She can out run all the boys
  • She speaks a foreign language
  • She is taller than all the other children

Question 9

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Which two characters are the "outcasts" of the novel, by Maycomb society?
Answer
  • Boo Radley and Tom Robinson
  • Jem and Scout
  • Boo Radley and Maudie Atkinson
  • Calpurina and Aunt Alexandra

Question 10

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What is the reason for the author's choice of a young narrator?
Answer
  • All of them
  • To allow the story to be presented by someone who cannot take an active role
  • To remove moral bias from the story
  • To allow the narrator to mature as the story progresses

Question 11

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The school setting in the second chapter allows Lee to?
Answer
  • Introduce the reader to the various families in Maycomb country
  • Denounce the segregation of black and whites
  • Show the general disrespect that children have for authority
  • Blame the education system for the incidents which follow in the novel

Question 12

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The novel's action takes place in?
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  • 1930s
  • 1960s
  • 1940s
  • 1980s

Question 13

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How does Atticus demonstrate that Tom's right hand is the one he uses?
Answer
  • Throws a cup at him
  • Uses a toffee hammer to show his left hand doesn't work
  • Gets him to throw a baseball
  • Arm-wrestle him

Question 14

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How does Mr. Cunningham pay for his legal work?
Answer
  • With Nuts
  • With money
  • In labour
  • Protecting his children

Question 15

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How did Tom Robinson injury his left hand?
Answer
  • Caught in a cotton gin
  • Trapped in a door
  • Ran over by a car
  • By fighting someone

Question 16

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Whats is Atticus' old nickname?
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  • One-shot finch
  • Finch the Lynch
  • The Lawyer
  • The Boss

Question 17

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Complete this quotation from the novel: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view..."
Answer
  • "until you talk to him and hear his story."
  • "until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
  • "until you walk a day in his shoes."
  • "until you see things through his eyes."

Question 18

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How is the defendant proven to be innocent?
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  • He wasn't in town on the night of the incident
  • He was at work on the night of the incident
  • He can't use his left hand
  • Doesn't know where the plaintiff lives

Question 19

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Which of the Finch's neighbours does a lot of gardening?
Answer
  • Miss Rachel Haverford
  • Mrs Henry Lafayette Dubose
  • Miss Stephanie Crawford
  • Miss Maudie Atkinson

Question 20

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What is in Dolphus Raymond's brown paper bag?
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  • Cola
  • Beer
  • Orange Juice
  • Rum

Question 21

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Who attacks Scout and Jem on their way back from the pageant?
Answer
  • Tom Robinson
  • Bob Ewell
  • Charles Baker Harris
  • Hector Tate
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