Key Quotes TKAM

Question 1

Atticus

Answer 1

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Question 3

Atticus

Answer 3

“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.” - Chapter 23 of To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 4

Atticus

Answer 4

“Atticus, he was real nice”

“Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” - Chapter 31 of To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 5

Scout

Answer 5

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.” - Chapter 7 of To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 6

Atticus

Answer 6

They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” -Atticus (114)

Question 7

Atticus

Answer 7

I don’t care what you do, so long as you do something

Question 8

Atticus

Answer 8

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Question 10

Scout

Answer 10

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.” - Chapter 9 of To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 11

Scout

Answer 11

“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”-Scout (293)

Question 12

Scout

Answer 12

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.” - Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 14

Jem

Answer 14

If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because he wants to stay inside.” - Chapter 23 of To Kill a Mockingbird