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To Kill a Mockingbird Test

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35 questions
Multiple Choice section 2 points each
2

What is the name of Atticus’s childhood home?

2

Who lives there now?

2

Who was the first Finch to live there?

2

What is the name of the town where Scout, Jem, and Atticus live?

2

Who came back to live with the Radley’s after old Mr. Radley died?

2

What was the name of Scout and Jem’s summertime friend?

2

Where was the summer time friend from?

2

List at least two items the children found in the tree?

2

Why did Mr. Radley tell the children he filled the hole in the tree with cement?

2

Scout occasionally got into fights, which one of the following people did Scout fight with?

2

What is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?

2

What is the point of view of To Kill a Mockingbird?

2

What do mockingbirds symbolize?

2

What happened to Miss Maudie on the coldest night in history?

2

What did Aunt Alexandra want to teach Scout?

Vocabulary
Multiple choice 2 points each
2

masses of leaves

2

to cut, trim, or shape by carving off bits with a knife; to reduce the amount of

2

give an incentive for action

2

a list of works of music or readings that are ready for performance

2

any of the features of the body, usually the face

2

natural, inborn, inherent; built-in

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a narrow, elevated walkway

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something that incites, instigates, angers, or irritates

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moral uprightness; righteousness

2

a huge tomb

Short Answer- 1-2 sentences 3 points each
3

Who wrapped Scout in the brown blanket?

3

How is Atticus different from Scout and Jem’s friends’ fathers?

3

Describe Calpurnia's role in Scout and Jem’s life.

3

Why did Atticus go sit in front of the jail with his lamp?

3

How did Tom Robinson handle going to prison?

Read the following passage: Then answer the questions. 3-5 points each.
"Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that's all," said Miss
Maudie. "Wouldn't you stay in the house if you didn't want to come
out?"
"Yessum, but I'd wanta come out. Why doesn't he?"
Miss Maudie's eyes narrowed. "You know that story as well as I do."
"I never heard why, though. Nobody ever told me why."
Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist-"
"That's what you are, ain't it?"
"My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a Baptist."
"Don't you all believe in foot-washing?"
"We do. At home in the bathtub."
"But we can't have communion with you all-"
Apparently deciding that it was easier to define primitive baptistry
than closed communion, Miss Maudie said: "Foot-washers believe
anything that's pleasure is a sin. Did you know some of 'em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this place and told me me and my flowers were going to hell?"
"Your flowers, too?"
"Yes ma'am. They'd burn right with me. They thought I spent too much time in God's outdoors and not enough time inside the house reading the Bible."
My confidence in pulpit Gospel lessened at the vision of Miss Maudie stewing forever in various Protestant hells. True enough, she had an acid tongue in her head, and she did not go about the neighborhood doing good, as did Miss Stephanie Crawford. But while no one with a grain of sense trusted Miss Stephanie, Jem and I had considerable faith in Miss Maudie. She had never told on us, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend. How so reasonable a creature could live in peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible.
"That ain't right, Miss Maudie. You're the best lady I know."
Miss Maudie grinned. "Thank you ma'am. Thing is, foot-washers
think women are a sin by definition. They take the Bible literally,you know."
"Is that why Mr. Arthur stays in the house, to keep away from women?"
"I've no idea."
"It doesn't make sense to me. Looks like if Mr. Arthur was hankerin'after heaven he'd come out on the porch at least. Atticus says God's loving folks like you love yourself-"
Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. "You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of- oh, of your father."
I was shocked. "Atticus doesn't drink whiskey," I said. "He never
drunk a drop in his life- nome, yes he did. He said he drank some
one time and didn't like it."
Miss Maudie laughed. "Wasn't talking about your father," she said.
"What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he
wouldn't be as hard as some men are at their best. There are just some kind of men who- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. "
"Do you think they're true, all those things they say about B- Mr.
Arthur?"
"What things?"
I told her.
"That is three-fourths colored folks and one-fourth Stephanie
Crawford," said Miss Maudie grimly. "Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up a while."
I was sure it did. Miss Maudie's voice was enough to shut anybody
up.
"No, child," she said, "that is a sad house. I remember Arthur
Radley when he was a boy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did.Spoke as nicely as he knew how."
"You reckon he's crazy?"
Miss Maudie shook her head. "If he's not he should be by now. The
things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets-"
"Atticus don't ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he
don't do in the yard," I said, feeling it my duty to defend my parent.
3

What do you think Miss Maudie means by ‘foot-washing Baptist’ ?

5

What does Miss Maudie mean by "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of- oh, of your father."

10

Create a theme for To Kill a Mockingbird. Include a big idea, 2 pieces of evidence, and a universal theme.

Choose only 1 of the following Essay Questions 14 points
14

Discuss how Jem and Scout changed throughout the novel. Make sure to use examples from To Kill a Mockingbird’s beginning, middle and end.

14

Compare Tom Robinson’s situation to the Scottsboro Boys, or Jackie Robinson.