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- 1. Multiple Choice
Where does the story take place?
Memphis, Tennessee
Monroeville, Alabama
Burmingham, Alabama
Maycomb, Alabama
- 2. Multiple Choice
What’s Scout’s real name?
Boo
Jean Louise
Alexandra
Mayella
- 3. Multiple Choice
Where is Scout and Jem’s mother?
She died when Scout was two and Jem was six.
She ran off with another man when Scout was two and Jem was six.
She is recovering from consumption in Europe.
She was killed in a fire a year before the novel starts.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the recluse, Boo Radley, rumored to have done when he was little?
Bullied a girl at school
Burnt down Miss Maudie’s house
Stabbed his father with a pair of scissors
Killed a mockingbird with his bare hands
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who is Dill?
A boy staying next door for the summer whom Scout and Jem befriend
The owner of the town newspaper
One of the Ewell kids
Huck Finn’s younger brother
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why does the teacher get mad at Scout on the first day of school?
Because she arrives late
Because she’s passing notes during class
Because she knows how to read
Because Scout calls her names
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why won’t Walter Cunningham borrow a quarter from Miss Caroline for lunch?
Because his family is poor and he won’t ever be able to repay it
Because he doesn’t like Miss Fisher
Because he’s offended by her offer
Because he’s not hungry
- 8. Multiple Choice
What does Walter do at lunch at the Finches that shocks Scout?
He picks his nose.
He’s rude to Calpurnia.
He pours maple syrup all over his plate of meat and vegetables.
He refuses to say grace.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What happens to Burris Ewell?
Cecil Jacobs beats him up.
A bug crawls out of his hair.
Scout tells lies about him to Miss Caroline.
He gets kicked out of school.
- 10. Multiple Choice
When do the Ewell kids go to school?
Only when the weather is warm and they don’t have to wear shoes
Only on the first day of every school year
Only for first and second grade
Only when their father is out of town
- 11. Multiple Choice
Where do Scout and Jem start finding gifts left for them?
On Scout’s windowsill
In the knothole of a tree in the Radley’s yard
In Miss Maudie’s garden
On the Radley’s back porch
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why does Scout start hanging out with Miss Maudie?
Because Dill and Jem have made her feel unwelcome in their games
As punishment for destroying her flowers
Because she doesn’t like Dill
Because Miss Maudie needs help with her garden
- 13. Multiple Choice
How does Miss Maudie account for Boo’s strangeness?
He was a bad seed from start.
He’s mentally challenged.
He had an incredibly strict Baptist father.
He suffered from Polio when he was seven.
- 14. Multiple Choice
What happens when Scout, Jem, and Dill sneak into the Radleys backyard?
Boo invites them in.
A dog chases them off the property.
Nathan comes out and has a stern talk with them.
Someone shoots at them with a shotgun.
- 15. Multiple Choice
How does Dill explain Jem’s missing pants?
First he says strip poker and then lighting matches.
He admits what really happened.
He says they floated down the river when they went for a swim.
He says they got ripped up when they were climbing trees.
- 16. Multiple Choice
What does Boo Radley carve for Jem and Scout out of soap?
A dolphin figurine
A miniature sculpture of himself
Two figures that look like Jem and Scout
A snowman
- 17. Multiple Choice
What reason does Boo’s brother, Nathan Radley, give Jem for filling in the knothole with cement?
He says that’s what you do when a tree is dying.
He says that’s what you do when a tree is growing too fast.
He says Boo did it because he’s crazy.
He says he didn’t do it and will give Jem a reward if he figures out who did.
- 18. Multiple Choice
What unexpected natural phenomenon happens in Alabama for the first time in years?
Snow
Flooding
Killer bees
An earthquake
- 19. Multiple Choice
What does Boo Radley do during the night of the fire?
He drapes a blanket over Scout’s shoulders.
He steals a pair of Jem’s pants.
He puts cement in the knothole of the tree.
He makes a snowman for Scout and Jem.
- 20. Multiple Choice
How does Miss Maudie react the day after the fire?
She’s despondent that her house burnt down.
She’s says she’s happy her house burnt down since she always hated it.
She leaves town.
She sues the fire department for damages.
- 21. Multiple Choice
Why do Cecil Jacobs, Francis, and other kids start taunting Scout about her father?
Because he is defending Tom Robinson, a black man
Because he’s older than the other fathers
Because Jem and Scout call him “Atticus” instead of “Dad”
Because he doesn’t go to church regularly
- 22. Multiple Choice
What does Uncle Jack say about Tom Robinson?
That he’s guilty like all black men
That he’s innocent and will be set free
That he’s innocent but doomed
That the case is complicated and it’s hard to tell if Tom is guilty or not
- 23. Multiple Choice
Why does it surprise Scout and Jem when Atticus shoots a mad dog?
Because he usually kills them with his bare hands
Because they think of him as old and lacking real-life skills
Because it was an utterly unjustified, violent act
Because they thought Jem would get a chance to shoot it first
- 24. Multiple Choice
What does Jem have to do as punishment for ruining Mrs. Dubose’s flowers?
Read to Mrs. Dubose every afternoon for hours
Help Miss Maudie with her garden
Help feed and bathe Mrs. Dubose
Write Mrs. Dubose a letter of apology
- 25. Multiple Choice
What does Mrs. Dubose do before she dies?
Kick her morphine habit
Make amends with people for all the mean things she’s said
Rewrite her will and leaves all her money and property to Jem
Gather the community by her bedside and say goodbye
- 26. Multiple Choice
Why doesn’t Dill return for the summer?
Because Scout writes him and breaks their “engagement”
His mom doesn’t want him around Atticus since he’s defending Tom.
Because he has “a new father”
Because of his falling out with Jem
- 27. Multiple Choice
Where does Calpurnia take the children?
To her home
To the trial
To Uncle Jack’s place
To her black church
- 28. Multiple Choice
For whom does Reverend Sykes take up a collection?
For Helen Robinson, Tom Robinson’s wife
For Calpurnia’s son and the town garbage collector
For Atticus for legal fees for defending
Tom For Mayella Ewell
- 29. Multiple Choice
Who comes to live with the Finches for a while to help take care of the kids?
Atticus’s brother, Uncle Jack
Atticus’s sister, Aunt Alexandra
Helen Robinson
Miss Maudie
- 30. Multiple Choice
What does Aunt Alexandra like to lecture the kids about?
Sin and the torments of Hell
Duty to country
Respect for their father
Their family heritage
- 31. Multiple Choice
Why does Dill run away from home?
Because his stepfather beat him
Because he didn’t want his parents to find out he was expelled from school
Because his mother and stepfather didn’t pay attention to him
Because he wanted to join the circus
- 32. Multiple Choice
Why do a group of men come to the Finch house in the evening?
To arrest Atticus
To tell Atticus that Tom has been killed
To offer their help in preparing for Tom’s case
To warn Atticus that Tom could be in danger
- 33. Multiple Choice
What does Scout do when she sees the men surrounding her father outside the jail?
She screams.
She runs into the middle of the group.
She runs home.
She starts hitting the men.
- 34. Multiple Choice
Why does Walter Cunningham tell the group to leave?
Because Scout has shamed him by talking about his son
Because Jem won’t stop kicking him
Because someone has a gun trained on them from a window above
Because Atticus threatens to stop giving him free legal advice
- 35. Multiple Choice
Who was guarding Atticus with a gun in his window the whole time?
Mr. Underwood, the newspaper owner
Sheriff Tate
Boo Radley
Reverend Sykes
- 36. Multiple Choice
Who says that the trial will be like a Roman carnival and refuses to go?
Miss Maudie
Aunt Alexandra
Helen Robinson
Nathan Radley
- 37. Multiple Choice
Where do Scout, Jem, and Dill watch the trial from?
The front row, behind their father
From the courtyard, peeing in a window
On TV in their living room
The balcony with Reverend Sykes
- 38. Multiple Choice
What is Bob Ewell like?
Rude, obnoxious, and ignorant
Charming and an eloquent speaker
Humble and ashamed of his appearance
Quiet but surprisingly intelligent
- 39. Multiple Choice
Which hand does Bob Ewell sign his name with?
His right
He doesn’t know how to write.
He refuses to write.
His left
- 40. Multiple Choice
What does Sheriff Tate say on the witness stand?
That he didn’t believe anything Mayella or Bob Ewell said
That he found Mayella beaten and she said Tom raped her, but that no doctor was called
That the doctor was rushed to the scene and found evidence of rape and severe beating
That he saw Tom Robinson running away from the scene looking guilty
- 41. Multiple Choice
When does Mayella say the rape occurred?
When she went to get a nickel for Tom for breaking up a dresser
When she was asleep at night
When she was a child
When she went to the Robinson’s to borrow some butter and sugar
- 42. Multiple Choice
What happens when Tom stands up?
Someone tries to shoot him.
Everyone sees that he has a disabled left arm.
Mayella spits at him.
He starts yelling at the jury that he’s innocent.
- 43. Multiple Choice
What does Mayella think Atticus is doing to her?
Trying to trick her
Flirting with her
Being kind and supportive
Mocking her
- 44. Multiple Choice
What does Tom say happened when Mayella invited him inside?
She tried to kiss him.
Bob Ewell attacked him.
He tried to give Mayella a hug and she went crazy.
Nothing at all
- 45. Multiple Choice
How does Tom feel about Mayella?
He loves her.
He hates her.
He feels sorry for her.
He admires her.
- 46. Multiple Choice
Who is Mr. Dolphus Raymond?
Dill’s real father
The honorable judge of Tom’s trial who likes to chew tobacco
A rich white man with a black mistress and mixed race children
Tom Robinson’s employer who speaks out during the trial
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