To Kill A Mockingbird Quiz Chapters 1-5

Question 1

Assuage

Answer 1

to relieve or ease one’s fears

Question 2

Impotent

Answer 2

lacking power of ability

Question 3

Taciturn

Answer 3

habitually quiet, reserved, and uncommunicative

Question 4

Vapid

Answer 4

dull, spiritless, unimaginative; lacking liveliness, animation, or interest

Question 5

Malevolent

Answer 5

wanting or wishing to do evil to others

Question 6

Nocturnal

Answer 6

active or occuring at night

Question 7

Predilection

Answer 7

a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something

Question 8

Piety

Answer 8

the quality of being reverent and religious; devout, holy in religious faith

Question 9

Chapter one starts off with a what?

Answer 9

A flashback to when Jem broke his arm

Question 10

What is the age gap between Jem and Scout?

Answer 10

4 years

Question 11

How old is Scout?

Answer 11

6 years old

Question 12

What is Dill’s full name?

Answer 12

Charles Baker Harris

Question 13

What is Jem’s full name?

Answer 13

Jeremy Atticus Finch

Question 14

Where is Dill from?

Answer 14

Meridian, Mississippi

Question 15

Who does Dill spend the summer with?

Answer 15

His aunt, Miss Rachel

Question 16

What did Scout’s grandparents own?

Answer 16

A plantation

Question 17

Who is Simon?

Answer 17

He was the slave owner who owned the Finch’s oldest relative

Question 18

What was the name of the Finch’s plantation?

Answer 18

Finch’s Landing

Question 19

What kind of town is Maycomb and what does that mean?

Answer 19

A small town, meaning everyone is in everyone’s business

Question 20

“People moved slowly then” means what?

Answer 20

A narrow minded town

Question 21

How do we know it’s 1933? List two reasons

Answer 21

The Dracula Movie came out and Maycomb had recently been told they had nothing to fear but fear itself by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 22

How is Atticus different from the rest of his family?

Answer 22

Atticus didn’t work on the plantation and became a lawyer

Question 23

What happened to Scout’s mom?

Answer 23

She died when Scout was 2.

Question 24

Who is Calpurnia?

Answer 24

The Finch’s maid/nanny who is an African American but not a slave

Question 25

Where is Miss Rachel's house?

Answer 25

Nieghbors with the Finch's

Question 26

How old is Dill?

Answer 26

7, but he is small.

Question 27

Where has Dill been that Scout and Jem haven't?

Answer 27

The movies (he saw Dracula)

Question 28

What are some traits that describe Dill?

Answer 28

Confident, curious, and has a GREAT imagination

Question 29

Why does Dill not like talking about his dad?

Answer 29

His dad left him behind

Question 30

Who created the story of Boo Radley?

Answer 30

Dill

Question 31

Describe Boo's Legend

Answer 31

The youngest Radley boy (Aruther) started to hang out with the Cunningham's and one night when they were resistanting arrest by Mr. Conner and locked him the courthouse outhouse. The judge sent all the boys to the industrial school, but Mr. Radley insisted that Aruther would never get into trouble again and locked him the basement

Question 32

Who are the Cunningham's?

Answer 32

A group of rebellious teenagers (poor, farming family)

Question 33

What is the industrial school and how did the judge do those kids a favor by sending them there?

Answer 33

It is the best school in the state and by sending them there they got an amazing education and most led onto successful lives

Question 34

Who is Miss Stephanie?

Answer 34

The town gossip

Question 35

Why was Boo locked up in the basement instead of the prison?

Answer 35

The Sheriff didn't want him with African Americans

Question 36

What does Calpurnia say about Mr. Radley?

Answer 36

He is the meanest man alive

Question 37

What is the description of Boo?

Answer 37

six and a half feet tall who eats raw squirrels and cats there was long jagged scar that ran across his face with teeth yellow and rotten his eyes popped out of his head and he drooled most of the time

Question 38

Where did the physical description of Boo come from?

Answer 38

Jem's imagination