TKAM

Question 1

Scout

Answer 1

Protagonist, tomboy, narrator, intelligent, curious

Question 2

Atticus

Answer 2

Scout, Jem’s father, lawyer, widower, dry sense of humour, nice, hero

Question 3

Jem’s

Answer 3

Polite, typical southern boy, intelligent, friends with Dill

Question 4

Arthur Radley

Answer 4

Never leaves his house, mysterious, people make rumours (he tried to stab his dad allegedly), one of the novel’s mockingbird (good and innocent person hurt by the evil of mankind)

Question 5

Calpurnia

Answer 5

Nanny of Scout and Jem, black, stern, takes kids to black church

Question 6

Dill

Answer 6

Jem and Scout’s friend, only comes in the Summer, imaginative and weird kid, helps Jem and Scout see Boo, likes Scout, represents childhood innocence

Question 7

Aunt Alexandria

Answer 7

Atticus’s sister, teaches Scout how to be a “lady”, perfect southern lady, not very liked by Jem and Scout when she first arrives

Question 8

Mayella Ewell

Answer 8

White, abused by her father (Bob Ewell), wrongly accuses Tom Robinson of rape, has many siblings, lonely, and unhappy

Question 9

Bob Ewell

Answer 9

Drunk, abuses Mayella, member of Maycomb’s poorest and least respected family, dies, attacts Scout and Jem

Question 10

Mr. Walter Cunningham

Answer 10

Poor farmer, has a son, part of mob that tries to lynch Tom

Question 11

Walter Cunningham

Answer 11

Son of Sr., Scouts classmate, Scout fights him, Jem tells her to stop and invites him over for dinner

Question 12

Tom Robinson

Answer 12

The black worker accused of rape, innocent, Atticus defends him, dies in jail at end of novel (Shot by guards), symbol of a mockingbird (somebody that is innocent and good but is destroyed by the evil of mankind

Question 13

Theme: Good vs Evil

Answer 13

Moral nature of human beings (Whether people are good or evil)

• dramatizing scout and jem’s childhood innocence perspective to an adult perspective where they see more evil and must learn it more
• tom robinson
• boo radley

Question 14

Theme: Moral Education

Answer 14

Scout and Jem learn more about morals rather than academic story in the story.

Question 15

Theme: Social Inequality

Answer 15

Finches near top of social ladder, most of townspeople beneath them, Cunningham’s below, Ewell’s even lower. Black people even below Ewell’s.

Question 16

Theme: Racism

Answer 16

Many people in Maycomb are very racist see black community below Ewell’s.

Question 17

Theme: Coming of age/growing up

Answer 17

Plotline follows Scout and the way she grows up. Scout is a child and matures and takes Atticus’s moral ideas by the end of the novel.

Question 18

Life Lessons from TKAM

Answer 18

• Put yourself into other shoes
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Atticus never sugar coated stuff
• Don’t destroy what is beautiful (Atticus taught his kids to never kill a Mockingbird)
• Never lose your respect for others
• People are people
• Courage is not physical, but also mental
• Part of growing up is learning about society but not necessarily accepting it