To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 1

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started…..

Answer 1

Is no reason for us not to try to win

Question 2

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…

Answer 2

Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Question 3

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.

Answer 3

One does not love breathing

Question 4

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule

Answer 4

is a person’s conscience

Question 5

I think there’s just one kind of folks.

Answer 5

Folks.

Question 6

“Atticus, he was real nice.”

Answer 6

“Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”

Question 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,

Answer 7

that white man is trash”

Question 8

Don’t let em get your goat

Answer 8

Try fightin’ with your head for a change.

Question 9

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin,

Answer 9

but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Question 10

I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time

Answer 10

It’s because he wants to stay inside.

Question 11

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives

Answer 11

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.”

Question 12

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em,

Answer 12

but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Question 13

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white

Answer 13

But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men

Question 14

Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o’clock naps.

Answer 14

And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum.

Question 15

“I shall never marry, Atticus.”

Answer 15

“I might have children.”

Question 16

I try to give’em a reason, you see.

Answer 16

It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason

Question 17

Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.

Answer 17

She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years

Question 18

I wanted you to see what real courage is

Answer 18

instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand

Question 19

People generally see what they look for

Answer 19

and hear what they listen for

Question 20

Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit ‘em

Answer 20

but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird

Question 21

People in their right minds

Answer 21

never take pride in their talents

Question 22

There are some men n this world who are born to do unpleasant jobs for us

Answer 22

Your father’s one of them

Question 23

There’s a whole lot of ugly things in this world son,

Answer 23

I wish I could keep em away from you. Thats never possible

Question 24

Being southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family

Answer 24

that we had no recorded members on either side of the Battle of Hastings

Question 25

He aint company, Cal,

Answer 25

he’s just a cunningham

Question 26

Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey

Answer 26

that’s why he won’t change his ways

Question 27

Before I can worry about living with other people

Answer 27

I have to live with myself first

Question 28

Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch

Answer 28

, that’s why his hands were bloodstained – if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off.