WorksheetsTo Kill A Mockingbird: Part 1 Quiz
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 28mins
The Narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird is:
Simon Finch
Jem Finch
Atticus Finch
Scout Finch
The Point of View the story is told in is:
First Person
Second Person
Third Person
The events of the novel begin in:
1923
1933
1943
1953
1963
Harper Lee wrote and published To Kill A Mockingbird during the:
Great Depression
Prohibition
Women's Suffrage Movement
Civil Rights Movement
__________ ____________ is the name of the Finch family's homestead which was settled by Simon Finch. It is on the Alabama River, about forty miles above Saint Stephens.
(a)
Which of the following people are members of the Finch family?
Scout
Dill
Miss Maudie
Jack
Alexandra
Dill's real name is:
Charles Baker Harris
Dill Baker Harris
Dill Haverford
Charles Dill Harris
What do you know about Dill?
- Where does he come from?
- With whom does he stay? Why?
- What is he like?
- What is his home life like?
- What is his relationship with Scout and Jem like?
Calpurnia:
is a slave
is African American
is the Finch family's cook
lives with the Finch family
Came to the Finch family after Scout's mother passed away
On her first day at school Scout gets in trouble with her new young teacher Miss Caroline Fisher. Why?
Because she has cooties
Because she has no lunch
Because she knows how to read
Because she refuses to read
Because she tells Miss Cunningham that she's shamin' Walter Cunningham.
Who says ,"if you can learn a simple trick. Scout, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." (p.31)
Jem
Calpurnia
Atticus
Miss Caroline
Which of the following are facts about Boo Radley?
He had been sent to a State Industrial Centre after disturbing the peace with a group of other boys.
Boo was sent to an asylum in Tuscaloosa after he attacked Mr Radley with a pair of scissors
Boo Radley was kept chained to a bed
Boo's family are strict Baptists who believe anything that's pleasure is a sin.
Do you think Atticus is right to tell the children not to play their Boo Radley game?
Yes
No
Who does Scout enjoy spending her time with over the summer when Jem and Dill exclude her?
Miss Stephanie Crawford
Miss Maudie Atkinson
Uncle Jack
Miss Rachel Haverford
What gifts do the children find in the old oak tree on the edge of the Radley lot?
Two pieces of chewing gum and two polished Pennies from 1900 and 1906
A copy of The Grey Ghost
A pocket watch on a chain with an aluminium knife.
A ball of grey twine
Two carved soap images that looked like Jem and Scout
Who leaves the gifts for the children?
Mrs Radley
Nathan Radley
Mr Radley Snr
Arthur Radley
What does Jem lose the night the children intrude on the Radley property?
His mind
His pants
His father's stopwatch
His bet
Who do Scout and Jem make a snowman caricature of in their front yard?
Miss Maudie
Miss Caroline
Mr Avery
Boo Radley
Whose house is burned down in a fire?
Miss Maudie's
Miss Caroline's
Mr Avery's
Boo Radley's
Why is the fire significant?
Scout and Jem's main complaint about their father is that...
He is old and boring
He's a terrible shot
He's racist
He is gone too often
Complete the following quote from Atticus-
"Simply because we were (a) a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win." (p.82)
Which of the following characters do Jem and Scout not enjoy seeing at Christmas time?
Uncle Jack
Aunt Alexandra
Francis
Uncle Jimmy
What does Atticus give Jem and Scout as a gift for Christmas?
Air rifles
A copy of Tarzan
Stopwatches
A toy chemistry set
When Calpurnia alerts the neighbourhood that Tim Johnson is on on the loose, how does she alert the Radleys?
By telephone
By knocking on the front door
By knocking on the back door
Trick question- she is too afraid of the Radleys to alert them.
Mrs Dubose is best described as:
Friendly and kind
Easy to deal with
Quiet and mysterious
Mean and rude
In your opinion who is the meanest character in the novel so far?
Francis
Uncle Jack
Aunt Alexandra
Mrs Dubose
Tim Johnson is:
Property of Mr Harry Johnson
A rabid, liver-coloured dog
Mr Harry Johnson's slave
Shot dead by Heck Tate
Complete the quote:
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a (a) ." (p.98)
What crime does Jem commit in To Kill a Mockingbird?
Stealing from a store
Breaking into the Radley house
Vandalising property
Using abusive and profane language on the presence of a hearing female
What punishment does Atticus give Jem?
Reading to Mrs Dubose for hours everyday
Cleaning Mrs Dubose's house
Fixing Mrs Dubose's garden
Trick question- Jem doesn't get caught
Who says: "I wanted you to see what real courage is...It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." (p.121)
Scout
Jem
Mrs Dubose
Atticus
What important lessons has Scout learned in this first part of the narrative?
