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Trivia: To Kill A Mockingbird

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Is Dill intelligent?
Yes
Because she has courage
Two
Air rifles

2. The first chapter focuses primarily on
Air rifles
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history
Yes
Scissors

3. After Atticus Finch agrees to defend Tom Robinson - what does Scout hear at school?

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4. Which character is most like a mockingbird in the metaphorical sense?
Tom Robinson
Jem
Unhappiness or depression
Scissors

5. What is scouts real name?
Both Gum and Pennies
September
Simon Finch
Jean Louise Finch

6. Why doesAtticus admire Mrs. Dubose?
Jean Louise Finch
Because she has courage
Two
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson

7. Atticus' role in shooting the rabid dog best foreshadows what future role that he will assume?
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history
From college courses
Because she has courage
His role as being a defender of the truth for the entire community

8. What isAtticus Finch's profession
Heck Tate
Both Gum and Pennies
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb
Lawyer

9. How old was scout when her mother died?
Black
Two
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
Guilty

10. who is their cook?
To maintain his conscience and his integrity
Calpurnia
Tom Robinson
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson

11. When Jem and Dill start to exclude Scout from their activities - with whom does she spend more time?
Scout
MaudieAtkinson
At least 15 years
Lawyer

12. When Jem and Scout get their air guns - what doesAtticus tell them it is a sin to shoot?
A mockingbird
Jean Louise Finch
His role as being a defender of the truth for the entire community
She can read and write

13. Who Broke their arm?
Chewing gum
Lawyer
Scissors
Jem

14. The Ewell family is
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb
Fur trader
Yes
The loss of childhood pleasures and the transition to adulthood responsibilities

15. Who is the editor of the local newspaper?
Scout
Mr. Underwood
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history
They all pretend to be various members of the Radley family and act out the stabbing scene

16. Scout and Jem are how old when the novel begins?
Two
The first day of every school year
Jem
6 and 10

17. What do Jem - Dill and Scout do that causes Mr. Radley to shoot at them?
Scout
Because she has courage
They sneak into the Radley yard and try to peak into a window
They should lure boo radley out of his house

18. Scout and Jem are how old when the novel begins?
6 and 10
He discusses farming in a very mature way with Atticus - He pours molasses onto his food - He failed to pass first grade due to his having to leave to work on the farm
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized
Chewing gum

19. When Jem thinks about his dead mother what emotion does he usually feel?
Unhappiness or depression
They sneak into the Radley yard and try to peak into a window
Arthur
Heck Tate

20. what did boo stab his father with?
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized
Yes
Scissors
Miss Maudie's

21. Who founded Finch's Landing?
Guilty
Simon Finch
Radley
Arthur

22. What isAtticus accused of being because of Calpurnia?
Arthur
Because it is the word of a black man against a white man - and the jury will listen to the white man
Miss Maudie's
A "****** lover"

23. How much time do the Ewell children spend in school?
He discusses farming in a very mature way with Atticus - He pours molasses onto his food - He failed to pass first grade due to his having to leave to work on the farm
The first day of every school year
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized
Radley

24. The Ewell family is
A "****** lover"
Because she has courage
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb
Yes

25. What is the best reason for whyAtticus accepts a case that he knows he will lose?
Radley
Two
To maintain his conscience and his integrity
Scissors

26. Scouts first anscestor Simon Finch was a
Fur trader
Because it is the word of a black man against a white man - and the jury will listen to the white man
Black
Yes

27. Why doesAtticus know that he will lose his case with Tom Robinson?
Because it is the word of a black man against a white man - and the jury will listen to the white man
The loss of childhood pleasures and the transition to adulthood responsibilities
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized
Yes

28. Superstition causes the children to be afraid of which family's house?
A "****** lover"
A mockingbird
The loss of childhood pleasures and the transition to adulthood responsibilities
Radley

29. what color is Calpurnia?
MaudieAtkinson
Introduce the reader to the various families - as well as their peculiarities - in Maycomb county
Black
They should lure boo radley out of his house

30. What is the best reason for whyAtticus accepts a case that he knows he will lose?
To maintain his conscience and his integrity
Lawyer
He discusses farming in a very mature way with Atticus - He pours molasses onto his food - He failed to pass first grade due to his having to leave to work on the farm
At least 15 years

31. Whose house burns down?

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32. What items to Scout and Jem take from the knot-hole in one of the oak trees in the Radley's front yard?
Both Gum and Pennies
She punches him in the mouth
Heck Tate
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history

33. When Jem thinks about his dead mother what emotion does he usually feel?
Guilty
Unhappiness or depression
She punches him in the mouth
She can read and write

34. When Jem and Dill start to exclude Scout from their activities - with whom does she spend more time?
Both Gum and Pennies
She can read and write
His role as being a defender of the truth for the entire community
MaudieAtkinson

35. The first chapter focuses primarily on
Radley
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb
Coca-Cola
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history

36. When Jem and Scout get their air guns - what doesAtticus tell them it is a sin to shoot?
Black
Jean Louise Finch
A mockingbird
Unhappiness or depression

37. Who is the narrator of the story
From college courses
Scout
She can read and write
Mr. Underwood

38. Aunt Alexandra's grandson Francis callsAtticus a "******-lover"; how does Scout react?
Jem
Two
She punches him in the mouth
Lawyer

39. The school setting in the second chapter allows Lee to:
Two
At least 15 years
Introduce the reader to the various families - as well as their peculiarities - in Maycomb county
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized

40. Which two characters are the 'outcasts' of the novel - maligned by Maycomb society?
September
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson
At least 15 years
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb

41. What does Dill find in Dolphus Raymond's bottle?
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb
Jem
Unhappiness or depression
Coca-Cola

42. What is Dills real name?
Unhappiness or depression
Coca-Cola
A "****** lover"
Charles Baker Harris

43. Aunt Alexandra's grandson Francis callsAtticus a "******-lover"; how does Scout react?
She punches him in the mouth
Black
Guilty
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson

44. What activity do Dill - Scout and Jem frequently like to play with respect to the Radley family?
Calpurnia
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb
They all pretend to be various members of the Radley family and act out the stabbing scene
Two

45. The school setting in the second chapter allows Lee to:
Simon Finch
Coca-Cola
Introduce the reader to the various families - as well as their peculiarities - in Maycomb county
Air rifles

46. Mr. Radley's plugging up the knot-hole best symbolizes which of the following?
Atticus is 'a ****** lover'
The loss of childhood pleasures and the transition to adulthood responsibilities
At least 15 years
Coca-Cola

47. what did boo stab his father with?
They all pretend to be various members of the Radley family and act out the stabbing scene
Scissors
Fur trader
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized

48. Who founded Finch's Landing?
Simon Finch
MaudieAtkinson
Miss Maudie's
Lawyer

49. Why doesAtticus know that he will lose his case with Tom Robinson?
Because it is the word of a black man against a white man - and the jury will listen to the white man
His role as being a defender of the truth for the entire community
Unhappiness or depression
They sneak into the Radley yard and try to peak into a window

50. who is their cook?
Scout
Both Gum and Pennies
Calpurnia
Jem