TKAM ch 25-28

What does Scout think of Miss Gates (her teacher)?

• That she’s a role model for the girls in her class

• That she’s a hypocrite and a racist

• That she’s uncommonly wise

• That she's just like Miss Caroline

Why does Bob Ewell lose his WPA job?

• He gets in a fight with his supervisor.

• Atticus gets him fired.

• He’s caught stealing.

• He’s fired for laziness.

What happens to Judge Taylor?

• His wife is assaulted on her way home from church.

• Someone tries to break into his house.

• Someone locked him in the county's outhouse and he's stuck in there for three hours.

• His dog is killed and left on the steps of the courthouse.

What happens to Helen Robinson?

• Bob Ewell harasses her on her way to work.

• Bob Ewell tries to break into her house.

• She loses her job and leaves Maycomb.

• She starts working for the Finch family.

What is Scout's costume for the fall pageant?

• Peanuts

• Cotton

• Vidalia Onion

• Ham

How does Tom's death affect Maycomb's community?

• They decide to have an annual day of remembrance in Tom’s honor.

• It creates a bigger division between the white and black citizens.

• They have a memorial in the square for him but that's about it.

• They stay interested in it for about two days and then forget all about it.

Where does the novel take place?

• Knoxville, Tennessee

• Birmingham, Alabama

• Maycomb, Alabama

• Nashville, Tennessee

In what time period is the novel set?

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1940s

• 1950s

Which textual evidence best supports the idea that Tom Robinson was a victim of racism?

• Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true, my father had fought for him all the way (Lee 276).

• Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children" (Lee 276).

• Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed (Lee 276).

• "The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just us..." (Lee 271.

What part of the Story Plot Structure shows where Tom Robinson is killed and this event takes the story in a different direction?

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Resolution