TKAM Historical Context

What city is the setting of the novel modeled after?

• Maycomb, Alabama

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Macon, Georgia

• Savannah, Georgia

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What are the three main characters names?

• Sam, Jim, Scott

• Jem, Scott, Drake

• Scout, Doll, Jim

• Jem, Dill, Scout

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During The Great Depression, what happened when peeople all sold their stocks at the same time?

• The stock market made people rich

• Stock-holders bought more stocks

• The stock market crashed

• The stock market improved

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The problems created by the dust bowl…

• encouraged many city dwellers to move to the country

• caused people to struggle with work

• helped banks focus on assisting their customers

• were the result of bank failures

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What was "Jim Crow"

• Laws that kept white people safe

• Norms that children had to follow

• Laws and norms that segregated whites

• Laws and norms that segregated blacks

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What was the result of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• Blacks were treated equal to whites

• Blacks could vote

• Blacks were to be treated "seperate but equal"

• Blacks had the power to own land

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What was the Red Summer of 1919?

• a time of mass race riots across the country

• a time where blacks were attempting to get the power to vote

• a peaceful protest by MLK

• a very hot summer where no ones AC worked

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What is Lynching?

• private deaths of blacks

• public trials of blacks who comitted a crime

• public murders carried out by mobs

• private hearings for whites

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What was Harper Lee INFLUENCED by to write TKAM

• The Great Depression

• The Red Summer of 1919

• The Civil Rights Movement

• Her hometown

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Is TKAM Harper Lee's only book?

• Yes

• No

• She wrote some short stories

• She made 2 movies

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