To Kill A Mockingbird Background/Intro

The main character's father is a member of ...

• the state legislature
• the Masonic order
• First Purchase Church
• the National Rifle Association

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Scout and Jem's mother ...

• left their father when Scout was two and was never heard from again.
• died giving birth to Scout, leaving Scout with no memories of her.
• lives in an insane asylum in North Carolina.
• died of a heart attack when Scout was two.

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Boo Radley is rumored to have ...

• killed a man with a pair of scissors.
• stabbed his own father.
• broken out of an insane asylum.
• been bitten by a vampire. 

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Dill dares Jem to...

• go into the Radley’s front yard.
• throw a tomato at the Radley home.
• steal a basket from the Radleys’ front porch.
• touch the Radleys’ house. 

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The first grade teacher, Miss Caroline, forbids Scout to ...

• let her father teach her to read.
• play in the nearby pond.
• fight with Dill.
• check out the more interesting books for the older students.

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At the end of the first summer, Dill...

• runs away from home.
• returns to his family in another town.
• falls out of a tree and beaks his leg.
• goes to a military academy for boys.

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Scout is surprised that Walter Cunningham...

• is a good reader like she is.
• has never read a book before.
• can speak so knowledgeably about farming.
• hates the taste of molasses.

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Back at school, there's a big scene when Miss Caroline screams upon seeing...

• a snake that Scout has brought in a sack.
• a louse crawl off of the head of one of the boys.
• a frog that someone has put in her desk drawer.
• a mouse that crawls along the chalk ledge.

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Atticus explains to Scout that the town authorities bend the law for the Ewell family because they'll never change their ways; for instance, Mr. Ewell can

• shoot firearms within the town limits.
• burn trash in his back yard.
• hunt out of season.
• fish without a license.

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A mysterious figure, at some point called a "malevolent phantom."

• Boo Radley

• Nathan Radley

• Burris Ewell

• Mrs. Dubose

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