Racism

Question 1

Stark Raving Mad

Answer 1

‘Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand.’

Question 2

Worshiped

Answer 2

‘Negroes worshiped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays.’

Question 3

Belong

Answer 3

‘They’re real sad…They don’t belong anywhere. Coloured folks won’t have ‘em because they’re half white; white folks won’t have ‘em ‘cause they’re coloured,’

Question 4

Nigger Like Me

Answer 4

‘Mr Finch, if you was a nigger like me, you’d be scared to.

Question 5

Hell

Answer 5

‘Cry about the hell white people give coloured folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too.’

Question 6

Code of Our Society

Answer 6

‘She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honoured code of our society’

Question 7

Trash

Answer 7

‘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.’

Question 8

Wild Animals

Answer 8

‘That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human…”

Question 9

All Negroes

Answer 9

‘the evil assumption - that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings’

Question 10

Defend

Answer 10

‘The court appointed Atticus to defend him. Atticus aimed to defend him. That’s what they didn’t like about it. It was confusing.’