Quotes

Question 0

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

Answer 0

1) It shows that people are better able to understand others when they put themselves in their place
2) it helps Scout to understand that Miss Caroline is acting that way because she’s new to Maycomb

Question 1

The more we told Dill about the Radleys, the more he wanted to know, the longer he would stand hugging the light-pole on the corner, the more he would wonder.

Answer 1

1) it illustrates Dill’s curiosity

2) Dill’s obsession with Boo Radley leads to the “Radley Raids” and playing the Boo Radley game

Question 2

Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I can remember. I wanta keep it that way.”

Answer 2

1) Jem goes back to the Radley’s house to retrieve his pants
2) Atticus never physically hurt Jem
3) Atticus is a gentle father to his children

Question 3

Miss Maudie puzzled me. With most of her possessions gone and her beloved yard a
shambles, she still took a lively and cordial interest in Jem’s and my affairs.

Answer 3

1) Miss Maudie is optimistic

2) Miss Maudy enjoys the children’s company

Question 4

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us
not to try to win

Answer 4

1) Atticus is showing courage by standing up for what is right by defending Tom Robinson
2) The case is already decided

Question 5

Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He’s ruinin‘ the family, that’s what he’s doin’.”

Answer 5

1) Prejudice Can lead rational people to act in racist ways

2) it leads to scout fighting with Francis

Question 6

You know what’s going to happen as well as I do, Jack, and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb’s usual disease. Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand… I just hope that Jem and Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town. I hope they trust me enough…

Answer 6

1) Prejudice leads rational people to act in racist ways

2) he wants to make maintain his healthy relationship with his children

Question 7

“So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ‘em to their senses, didn’t it?” said Atticus. “That proves something—that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they are still human

Answer 7

1) it only takes one person to do something and the other people will follow
2) lesson of empathy

Question 8

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. 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

Answer 8

1) Atticus demonstrates courage by taking on the Tom Robinson trial
2) Atticus teaches the lesson of courage to his kids

Question 9

I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll
do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep.

Answer 9

1) only the children cry because children’s innocence is lost with experience
2) prejudice and racism make the town folks say that Tom Robinson was guilty even though they are good people

Question 10

“We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.”

Answer 10

1) Atticus is fair and has a strong sense of right and wrong

2) it shows that Miss Maudie is find of Atticus

Question 11

I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does.

Answer 11

1) it is more rewarding to practice compassion then to seek revenge. Atticus did not want bob ewell to take his anger out on his children
2) mr. Ewell needed revenge against those who he feels made him lose his credibility in court -

Question 12

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.”

Answer 12

1) As a result of the guilty verdict Jem loses his innocence with experience
2) Boo Radley does not want to face prejudice and racism

Question 13

His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?

Answer 13

1) miss Maudy is not afraid to speak her mind

2) miss Maudy also showed her support to Atticus by not going to the trial

Question 14

After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.

Answer 14

1) Scout appreciates what aunt Alexandra has been teaching her
2) Scout is maturing and seeing the value in being a lady

Question 15

“Atticus has used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the moment Mayella opened her mouth and screamed.”

Answer 15

1) Scout loses her childhood innocence with experience

2) It shows the racism in town

Question 16

Jem and Scout know what happened. If they hear me saying downtown something different happened Heck, I don’t have them anymore. I can’t live one way in town and another way in my home.”

Answer 16

1) It shows Atticus’s desire to do the right thing

2) Atticus wants his children to trust him

Question 17

Taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an draggin him with his shy ways into the limelight to me that’s a sin. It’s a sin and I’m not about to have it on my head

Answer 17

1) Not punishing people who have done nothing but good

2) this leads heck Tate to say that Bob Ewell killed himself

Question 18

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. just standing on the Radley porch was enough

Answer 18

1) Scout is demonstrating the lesson of empathy by putting herself in Boo Radley’s shoes
2) Scouts childhood innocence is lost with experience

Question 19

He had the guts to pester I poor colored woman, he had guts enough to pester Judge Taylor when he thought the house was empty so do you think he’da met you to your face in daylight?

Answer 19

1) It shows how much of a coward Bob Ewell was

2) Heck Tate did not like Bob Ewell

Question 20

He had the guts to pester I poor colored woman, he had the guts enough to pester Judge Taylor when you thought the house was empty so do you think he,da met you to your face in daylight?

Answer 20

1) It shows how much of a coward Bob Ewell was

2) Heck Tate did not like Bob Ewell