To Kill a Mockingbird Background Quiz

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the _________.

• Civil Rights Movement

• Civil War

• Great Migration

• Great Depression

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The Great Depression began in 1929 with the _________.

• Civil Rights Movement

• World War II

• Stock Market Crash

• Civil War

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The Great Depression finally ended when

• the president announced it was over.

• the Stock Market crashed.

• America joined WWII.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Define Jim Crow Laws from the time period of the book.

• The practice of segregating black people in the US

• Legislation that integrated ethnicities.

• Desegregating schools.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What were the consequences of breaking Jim Crow laws?

• Physical punishment, possibly including death

• Indentured servitude

• Serving time on a cotton farm

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What time frame did The Great Depression take place?

• During the 1920's

• During the 1930's

• During the 1960's

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

How did The Great Depression impact the south?

• Unemployment rates skyrocketed

• Slavery was abolished

• Farmers sold far more food

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

When she was a child, Harper Lee was a...

• Tomboy like the character Scout.

• Well behaved like the character Scout.

• A wonderful storyteller like the character Dill.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Harper Lee's father was a...

• Lawyer

• Doctor

• Teacher

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

What is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?

• Mobile, Alabama

• Austin, Texas

• Maycomb, Alabama

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9