To Kill a Mockingbird background information

Who is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird?

• Harper Lee

• Truman Capote

• Scout Finch

• Atticus Finch

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What is the main theme of To Kill a Mockingbird?

• Racial injustice

• Love and romance

• Science fiction

• Historical fiction

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In which year was To Kill a Mockingbird published?

• 1960

• 1930

• 1980

• 2015

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Who is the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird?

• Scout Finch

• Atticus Finch

• Harper Lee

• Jem Finch

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Harper Lee didn't release this companion novel until 2015:

• Go Set a Watchman

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• Wuthering Heights

• Southern Gothic

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What are characteristics of southern gothic literature?

• Arose in the American South in the 1940s

• Derived from gothic literature genre

• Does not typically focus on the author

• The "monsters" in this genre are flawed humans

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A bildungsroman novel...

• depicts the coming of age of a central character

• usually involves ghosts or the supernatural

• has a basis in Greek or Roman myth

• refers to a novel that has a female protagonist

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The tone of To Kill a Mockingbird may be called didactic. That means...

• its purpose is to instruct or inform

• it is in chronological order

• it is in first person

• the main character dies

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A motif is:

• The message of the story

• A recurring symbol which takes on a figurative meaning

• The plot of a story

• The setting of a story

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How many themes can a piece of literature have?

• unlimited

• one or two

• only one

• a handful

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