WorksheetsTo Kill a Mockingbird Context Quiz
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 9mins
What was the Great Depression?
A rapid increase in mental health issues in the 1930s.
A worldwide economic depression lasting 10 years.
A drought causing the Dust Bowl.
Franklin D. Roosevelt created corrupt government programs.
What was the effect of the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
Consumer spending increased and businesses struggled to cope.
Consumer spending decreased and investing increased.
Consumer spending and investing decreased and unemployment rose.
Employment rose, but the stock market crashed.
What is lynching?
Ritual and public killing of slaves by hanging.
The whipping of slaves.
Slaves being separated from their owners.
Slaves being freed.
Approximately how many slaves were shipped to America between the 16th and 19th century?
1 million
Thousands
20 million
12 million
What did Harper Lee's father do?
He was a lawyer and and newspaper editor
Journalist and publisher
Lawyer
He owned a local newspaper.
What happened between Harper Lee and Truman Capote?
They got married after To Kill a Mockingbird was published.
They were friends but grew apart after the success of To Kill a Mockingbird.
They were sworn enemies.
Capote worked for Lee.
What is sharecropping?
Shared ownership of agricultural land.
When a black person would work on a white person's farm.
A landowner rents part of his land out for growing crops.
A landowner allows use of his land in return for a share of the crops produced.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
During the Reconstruction years (1865-1877) the Jim Crow laws were designed to protect former slaves.
During the Reconstruction years (1865-1877) the Jim Crow laws were designed to segregate by skin colour.
The Jim Crow laws gave land back to freed slaves.
The Jim Crow laws called for slavery to be enforced once again.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
An act enforcing equality between all races.
An act meant to enforce equality but overturned because it legally only protected social rights, not civil rights, so became invalid,.
An act enforcing the segregation of black and white people.
An act guaranteeing that establishments treated people of all races equally.
How were black people subjugated in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
They were given rights to own property, gain education and work.
The migration of African-Americans to the North.
Jim Crow laws, abject poverty and abuse from the Ku Klux Klan.
Civil War kept black people feeling inferior.
What was Martin Luther King famous for?
Starting the Civil War.
The 'I have a dream' speech.
Going to prison and being assassinated
Being a key member of the Civil Rights Movement, garnering equality for all races.
Who was Rosa Parks?
She refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested, leading to a mass protest of segregation.
She was the President of the United States and helped the Civil Rights Movement.
She was the pioneer of the Triangular trade.
She was murdered for standing up to a white person at a bus stop, leading to a mass protest of segregation.
What famous court trials could To Kill a Mockingbird reflect (multiple answers)?
The Scottsboro boys
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Emmett Till
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
A group, started in 1865, which believed and fought for white supremacy.
A group, started in the 1930s, which fought for civil rights for all.
A group who assassinated MLK.
A fictional lynch mob in To Kill a Mockingbird.
