To Kill A Mockingbird

Question 1

Who is the main protagonist of To Kill A Mockingbird?

Answer 1

Scout (Jean-Louise Finch). Also the narrator. The story focuses on her interactions with her interactions with her dad Atticus.

Question 2

Where does the novel take place?

Answer 2

Maycomb, Alabama. A fictional town.

Question 3

What is the name of Atticus’ son?

Answer 3

Jem Finch (Jeremy Atticus Finch)

Question 4

What is the name of Atticus’ daughter?

Answer 4

Scout Finch (Jean Louise Finch)

Question 5

Who does Scout receive a delivery from? Why does this happen?

Answer 5

Mr. Cunnigham. Atticus lent legal services. Mr. Cunnigham was too poor to pay it off. Atticus pities him.

Question 6

What is going on (economically) at the present time?

Answer 6

Since it is the 30s the great depression is happening.

Question 7

Who does the judge appoint Atticus to defend? What is special about the defendent? What has this person been charged for?

Answer 7

Tom Robinson

His a black male. This gives him a lesser status.

He is being charged of raping a white woman.

Question 8

What does Scout hear in the schoolyard?

Answer 8

That her father is a n- word lover. She also gets into fights with Walter Cunningham.

Question 9

Who is the defendent, who is her father?

Answer 9

Mayella Ewell. Her dad is Bob Ewell.

Question 10

Who is the friend Jem and Scout meet during the summer?

Answer 10

Dill. He does not live in Maycomb.

Question 11

When Atticus goes to the Robinson home, who spots Jem and Scout in their car?

Answer 11

Bob Ewell. He is drunk, and it has been noted that alcohol is a large problem for him.

Question 12

Why does Atticus go to the jail?

Answer 12

To protect Tom Robinson from an oncoming lynch mob.

Question 13

How does Scout disperse the lynch mob?

Answer 13

Using her innocence, Scout inadvertently disperses the lynch mob. Scout does not know what is going on. However, she sees a familiar face in the crowd, Mr Cunningham. Scout talks to him, asks about his son and talks about the time he brought hickory nuts. Mr Cunningham snaps back to reality, and realises what he is doing is wrong.

Question 14

How do Jem and Scout get into the courthouse?

Answer 14

Jem and Scout manage to sneak into the trial in the African-Amercian portion (the upper bowl). Everyone takes their places.

Question 15

Who is put on the stand first? What are they asked, what revelations are made?

Answer 15

It was the sheriff. He said that Bob told him to come to his house because his daughter was beaten. The sheriff asks Bob if Tom Robinson did it, and Bob says yes. Atticus asks if a doctor was called to check for signs of rape. No doctor was called. The sheriff says that she was beaten on the head, arms, and had a black eye. Atticus asks which eye, and he says the right eye.

Question 16

Who comes on the stand after the first person? What are they asked, what revelations are made?

Answer 16

Bob Ewell. Bob Ewell says that when he came in from the woods, he heard Mayella’s scream, and he saw Tom with Mayella at the window. Atticus asks Bob to write his name on a paper. He writes it with his left hand.

Question 17

Who comes third to the stand? What are they asked, what revelations are made?

Answer 17

Mayella. Mayella gives her account of the story. She was sitting on the porch when Tom came. She wanted him to bust up the chiffarobe for a nickel. When she went to get him the nickel, he was on her, and he hit her. Atticus asks if Bob treats Mayella well. She says tolerable, he says except when he’s drinking. Mayella says that Bob’s never beat her. Mayella says that it was the first time Tom came over the fence. Mayella is wishy-washy through the whole trial. Atticus throws a glass to Tom. Tom catches it with his right hand. He has no function left in his left, meaning he could not have done the beating. Mayella goes on a spirited rant about cowardice.

Question 18

Who comes on the stand fourth? What are they asked, what revelations are made.

Answer 18

Tom Robinson is brought to the stand. He remains calm, composed, and honest. He says he busted up the chifferobe just as Mayella said, however, that was a year ago. He says the went on the field many times because Mayella always had a job for him to do. He said that on August 21st, he was going home, Mayella asked him to help, however, he saw nothing to work on. She said for him to come in and fix a door, but the door was fine. She shut the door, Tom realised the kids were gone, and she said she sent them for ice cream. She grabbed him and started making advances at him and kissed him. The trial then gets doomed because he said that he felt bad for her.

Question 19

What is the end result of the trial? Why is the jury deliberation better for Atticus?

Answer 19

Tom Robinson is charged guilty. However, every second there is a holdout from the jury, the more equality wins.

Question 20

What most likely happened to Mayella?

Answer 20

In a fit of drunken rage, Bob beat her.

Question 21

What does the sherriff tell Atticus after the trial?

Answer 21

Tom Robinson got shot dead.

Question 22

What do we see happen to Jem and Scout throughout the story?

Answer 22

They mature. Ex. Jem says to Atticus that he will go with him to break the news to the Robinsons.

Question 23

What happens to Jem and Scout on Halloween?

Answer 23

Jem and Scout take a shortcut home, which takes them through the forest. Suddenly, they are attacked. Jem is knocked unconcious, and Scout is knocked over. She is protected by her ham outfit. Suddenly, another man comes and begins fighting with each other.

Question 24

What does Scout find out happened in the woods?

Answer 24

Arthur “Boo” Radley stopped the kids from being attacked by a drunk Bob Ewell. Jem was carried to the house by Boo.

Question 25

What does the sherriff think happened in the woods? What does Atticus think? How does the sherriff decide to resolve the situation?

Answer 25

Atticus thinks that Jem stabbed Bob in self-defense. The sherriff thinks that Boo did it to protect the kids. The sherrif thinks that since everyone had been fed up with the actions of Bob Ewell, bringing Boo to the limelight as the children’s saviour would only confuse and damage him. They decide to spin the story that in his drunkeness, Bob Ewell fell on his knife.

Question 26

What does Scout liken protecting Boo to?

Answer 26

Atticus said that, you can never kill a mockingbird because all they do is sing and create pretty music. Scout thinks that not protecting Boo would be like killing a mockingbird, as he is too innocent.

Question 27

Who are the mockingbirds in the story?

Answer 27

Tom Robinson

Arthur “Boo” Radley

Question 28

Why is Atticus a hero?

Answer 28

Atticus is a hero because he is the most moral, and also he does what others will not. Atticus shows us time and time again, that we should not judge others, and do what we can to help them. Scout says that Atticus said “ You will never know a man, until you walk around in his shoes.” Atticus also does things that others won’t. He does not want to shoot the dog, but since nobody else can do it, he has to do it. He just wants to set a good example for his kids.