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Trivia: To Kill A Mockingbird

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does Dill find in Dolphus Raymond's bottle?
Simon Finch
Coca-Cola
Two
MaudieAtkinson

2. Who is the editor of the local newspaper?
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history
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 loss of childhood pleasures and the transition to adulthood responsibilities
Mr. Underwood

3. Scouts first anscestor Simon Finch was a
Because she has courage
A mockingbird
Guilty
Fur trader

4. How much time do the Ewell children spend in school?
They all pretend to be various members of the Radley family and act out the stabbing scene
Both Gum and Pennies
The first day of every school year
Scissors

5. Scout is unusual for a first grader because:
They all pretend to be various members of the Radley family and act out the stabbing scene
She can read and write
Charles Baker Harris
Jean Louise Finch

6. what color is Calpurnia?
Scissors
From college courses
A "****** lover"
Black

7. How did Miss Caroline learn her educational techniques?
From college courses
6 and 10
Because she has courage
The first day of every school year

8. Who Broke their arm?
Simon Finch
Lawyer
Jean Louise Finch
Jem

9. what did boo stab his father with?
Atticus is 'a ****** lover'
She can read and write
Scissors
She can read and write

10. What items to Scout and Jem take from the knot-hole in one of the oak trees in the Radley's front yard?
His role as being a defender of the truth for the entire community
The loss of childhood pleasures and the transition to adulthood responsibilities
Black
Both Gum and Pennies

11. Who is the narrator of the story
Yes
Miss Maudie's
Black
Scout

12. When Jem and Dill start to exclude Scout from their activities - with whom does she spend more time?
Calpurnia
MaudieAtkinson
Lawyer
Miss Maudie's

13. What is scouts real name?
Jean Louise Finch
Radley
Miss Maudie's
From college courses

14. What isAtticus accused of being because of Calpurnia?
Radley
A "****** lover"
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
Jean Louise Finch

15. What items to Scout and Jem take from the knot-hole in one of the oak trees in the Radley's front yard?
Black
Both Gum and Pennies
Chewing gum
Radley

16. What activity do Dill - Scout and Jem frequently like to play with respect to the Radley family?
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized
At least 15 years
They all pretend to be various members of the Radley family and act out the stabbing scene
Black

17. Walter Cunningham surprises Scout when he
Radley
Chewing gum
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
She can read and write

18. Which character is most like a mockingbird in the metaphorical sense?
They should lure boo radley out of his house
September
Air rifles
Tom Robinson

19. Who founded Finch's Landing?
Simon Finch
Tom Robinson
His role as being a defender of the truth for the entire community
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson

20. The school setting in the second chapter allows Lee to:
Radley
Simon Finch
Scissors
Introduce the reader to the various families - as well as their peculiarities - in Maycomb county

21. Whose house burns down?

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22. Why doesAtticus admire Mrs. Dubose?
September
Arthur
Because she has courage
Mr. Underwood

23. What does Scout first find in the knot-hole?
Simon Finch
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson
Chewing gum
Tom Robinson

24. Scout and Jem are how old when the novel begins?
Air rifles
6 and 10
Coca-Cola
Simon Finch

25. Which of the following are parallels in the novel?
His role as being a defender of the truth for the entire community
Radley
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized
Because she has courage

26. Who insists that Bob Ewell's death is an accident?
She can read and write
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
Radley
Heck Tate

27. Atticus' role in shooting the rabid dog best foreshadows what future role that he will assume?
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb
The first day of every school year
His role as being a defender of the truth for the entire community
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

28. What is Dills real name?
Jean Louise Finch
Because she has courage
Charles Baker Harris
Guilty

29. What is the best reason for whyAtticus accepts a case that he knows he will lose?
Air rifles
Radley
To maintain his conscience and his integrity
A "****** lover"

30. Scouts first anscestor Simon Finch was a
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
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history
Calpurnia
Fur trader

31. The Ewell family is
They all pretend to be various members of the Radley family and act out the stabbing scene
Black
The poorest - least educated families in Maycomb
To maintain his conscience and his integrity

32. What do Jem - Dill and Scout do that causes Mr. Radley to shoot at them?
Miss Maudie's
They sneak into the Radley yard and try to peak into a window
A mockingbird
The loss of childhood pleasures and the transition to adulthood responsibilities

33. Which of the following are parallels in the novel?
Charles Baker Harris
To maintain his conscience and his integrity
Simon Finch
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized

34. How did Miss Caroline learn her educational techniques?
A mockingbird
From college courses
They all pretend to be various members of the Radley family and act out the stabbing scene
Chewing gum

35. When Jem and Dill start to exclude Scout from their activities - with whom does she spend more time?
Air rifles
Fur trader
MaudieAtkinson
A mockingbird

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

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37. Aunt Alexandra's grandson Francis callsAtticus a "******-lover"; how does Scout react?
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
Both Gum and Pennies
Introduce the reader to the various families - as well as their peculiarities - in Maycomb county
She punches him in the mouth

38. What month does Dill leave Maycomb?
Scissors
Radley
September
Unhappiness or depression

39. What isAtticus accused of being because of Calpurnia?
Unhappiness or depression
Because she has courage
Chewing gum
A "****** lover"

40. Which character is most like a mockingbird in the metaphorical sense?
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
Lawyer
Simon Finch
Tom Robinson

41. What is Boo's real name?
Arthur
To maintain his conscience and his integrity
Heck Tate
BothAtticus and Scout fighting communal tradition and Tom and Boo being ostracized

42. When Jem and Scout get their air guns - what doesAtticus tell them it is a sin to shoot?
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history
She can read and write
Jem
A mockingbird

43. Why doesAtticus know that he will lose his case with Tom Robinson?
Tom Robinson
Because it is the word of a black man against a white man - and the jury will listen to the white man
Scout
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson

44. What is Boo's real name?
Charles Baker Harris
Arthur
Heck Tate
The first day of every school year

45. What is the reason for the author's choice of a young narrator?
Unhappiness or depression
Because she has courage
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
A mockingbird

46. Why doesAtticus admire Mrs. Dubose?
Black
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history
Because she has courage
Simon Finch

47. What month does Dill leave Maycomb?
Scout
Fur trader
September
Charles Baker Harris

48. Whose house burns down?

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49. Mr. Radley's plugging up the knot-hole best symbolizes which of the following?
Chewing gum
Lawyer
The loss of childhood pleasures and the transition to adulthood responsibilities
To maintain his conscience and his integrity

50. The first chapter focuses primarily on
Arthur
Tieing each of the individual characters to their family and history
She punches him in the mouth
Two