"To Kill a Mockingbird" | Novel Test

To Kill a Mockingbird was written in _____, but it takes place in the years _____.

• 1933; 1911-1913

• 1960; 1933-1935

• 1939; 1937-1939

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

The novel is written in a _____-person flashback point of view.

• first

• second

• third

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Part I of the novel focuses on _____ while Part II deals mainly with the trial of _____.

• Boo Radley; Tom Robinson

• Tom Robinson; Boo Radley

• Bob Ewell; Boo Radley

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

TKaM is labeled as a Bidungsroman -- which means a "novel of _____."

• racial prejudice

• education and maturation

• social class

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Scout, the narrator, recollects the novel from the perspective(s) of a(n) _____.

• innocent child

• mature adult

• both of these

The novel portrays the unjust "separate but equal" Jim Crow laws which legalized _____.

• segregation among races

• voting for blacks

• welfare for the poor

The novel can be classified as a "Southern Gothic" because it focuses on _____.

• grotesques

• mental illness

• dark imagery

• all of these

Unlike traditional Gothic novels, most Southern Gothic novels do not include elements of _____.

• mental illness

• the supernatural

• physically injured characters

The novel's minor characters are divided into innocents and pests, symbolized respectively by...

• mockingbirds and blue jays

• children and adults

• blacks and whites

The two major conflicts in the novel are Man vs. _____ and Man vs. _____.

• Man; Society

• Man; Nature

• Man; The Gods

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9