WorksheetsTo Kill a Mockingbird 1
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the ...
a)
1920s
b)
1930s
c)
1940s
d)
1950s
2.
The novel is set in the town of Maycomb in ...
a)
Georgia
b)
Mississippi
c)
Alabama
d)
Tennessee
3.
The main character's father is a member of ...
a)
the state legislature
b)
the Masonic order
c)
First Purchase Church
d)
the National Rifle Association
4.
Aunt Alexandra, sister to Atticus, is ...
a)
a sophisticated, intellectual professor
b)
traditional southern woman
c)
an activist for progressive social causes
d)
an excellent gardener
5.
Scout and Jem's mother ...
a)
left their father when Scout was two and was never heard from again.
b)
died giving birth to Scout, leaving Scout with no memories of her.
c)
lives in an insane asylum in North Carolina.
d)
died of a heart attack when Scout was two.
6.
Boo Radley is rumored to have ...
a)
killed a man with a pair of scissors.
b)
stabbed his own father.
c)
broken out of an insane asylum.
d)
been bitten by a vampire.
7.
Dill dares Jem to...
a)
go into the Radley’s front yard.
b)
throw a tomato at the Radley home.
c)
steal a basket from the Radleys’ front porch.
d)
touch the Radleys’ house.
8.
At the end of the first summer, Dill...
a)
runs away from home.
b)
returns to his family in another town.
c)
falls out of a tree and beaks his leg.
d)
goes to a military academy for boys.
9.
The first grade teacher, Miss Caroline, forbids Scout to ...
a)
let her father teach her to read.
b)
play in the nearby pond.
c)
fight with Dill.
d)
check out the more interesting books for the older students.
10.
Scout is surprised that Walter Cunningham...
a)
is a good reader like she is.
b)
has never read a book before.
c)
can speak so knowledgeably about farming.
d)
hates the taste of molasses.
11.
Back at school, there's a big scene when Miss Caroline screams upon seeing...
a)
a snake that Scout has brought in a sack.
b)
a louse crawl off of the head of one of the boys.
c)
a frog that someone has put in her desk drawer.
d)
a mouse that crawls along the chalk ledge.
12.
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
a)
shoot firearms within the town limits.
b)
burn trash in his back yard.
c)
hunt out of season.
d)
fish without a license.
13.
One afternoon, Scout notices something in the knothole of one of the oak trees in the front yard:
a)
three toy Indians.
b)
a pair of dice.
c)
a pocket knife.
d)
two pieces of chewing gum.
14.
Jem rolls Scout inside an old tire, but he pushes so hard that it ends up...
a)
going down a hill into a creek
b)
in Miss Maudie’s flowers.
c)
running over a snake in the yard.
d)
in the Radley’s yard.
15.
Scout and Dill have
a)
formed a club.
b)
said they would marry each other someday.
c)
had a fight in the school yard.
d)
played a trick on Calpurnia.
16.
Partly because she is sometimes excluded from ______, Scout spends a lot of time with ______ who becomes her trusted friend.
a)
visiting her father at his office . . . Miss Caroline.
b)
playing with Jem and Dill . . . Miss Maudie.
c)
helping Calpurnia in the kitchen . . . Miss Maudie.
d)
tending the animals . . . Miss Caroline.
17.
Jem loses his ___ when running away from the ____
a)
watch . . . Ewells.
b)
shoe . . . watchdog.
c)
bag of coins . . . sheriff.
d)
pants . . . Radleys.
18.
Jem thinks it would be better to be shot than to be ...
a)
whipped by his father.
b)
kissed by the ugly Ewell girl.
c)
made to sit with his aunt and cousin for the whole day.
d)
bitten by a rabid dog.
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