English Quiz 1 Flashcards
His mother won a beautiful baby photo contest with his picture
Dill
Scout’s first grade teacher
Miss Caroline
A mother figure for Scout and Jem
Calpurnia
His home his Meridian, Mississippi
Dill
Arthur
Boo Radley
Charles Baker Harris
Dill
The meanest woman who ever lived
Mrs. Dubose
A morphine addict
Mrs. Dubose
He says that his father is president of the L and N railroad
Dill
He only goes out when the moon is down
Boo Radley
He touches the Radley house because he was dared to do it
Jem
A prominent Maycomb lawyer
Atticus
He is called a pocket Merlin
Dill
He claims to have been up in a mail plane 17 times, been to Nova Scotia and seen and elephant
Dill
He is accused of a crime against a white woman
Tom Robinson
This individual loses his pants when he escapes from the Radley property
Jem
The narrator of the story
Scout
“One shot”
Atticus
When he was nearly thirteen he got his arm broken
Jem
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
President Roosevelt
He is 6 and 1/2 feet tall with a long jagged scar that runs across his face and drooled most of the time
Boo Radley
Her house is destroyed by fire
Miss Maudie
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience”
Atticus
He cemented the hole in the oak tree
Nathan Radley
Atticus says this individual was the “bravest person I ever knew”
Mrs. Dubose
He cuts the tops off every camellia bus Mrs. Dubose owned
Jem
“Your father’s right, mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy”
Calpurnia
How old is Jem at the beginning of part two
Twelve years old
What is meant by Jen’s alien values
Jem is slowly maturing and wants independence and discourages childish activities that he used to participate in with Scout
What do Jem and Scout recognize about Calpurnia while at her church
She talks like the rest of the African-Americans do when she’s at church
Who is the individual who represents summer
Dill
Why does Dill not come to Maycomb that summer
Him and his new lawyer dad were going to build a boat
Why does Rev Sykes lock the doors of the church
There aren’t ten dollars in the church coffee can yet
Who comes to live with Jem and Scout
Aunt Alexandra
Aunt Alexandra’s attitude towards family
She always wants to make herself known and heard, whether it be in her clothing or her commanding attitude. She also believes that the Finch family is a fine family and, as Scout said “Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was”
What does Atticus mean by “it’s not time to worry yet”
There will be a greater cause for worry in the near future
