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To Kill a Mockingbird Test Flashcards

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1
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To relieve, soothe, or calm. (Verb)

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Assuage

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Originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native. (Adj.)

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Indigenous

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A temporary stay. (Noun)

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Sojourn

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To state in detail. (Verb)

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Expound

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Readily angered; irritable. (Adj.)

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Fractious

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To decide between opposing parties or sides. (Verb)

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Arbitrate

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Moral improvement or guidance. (Noun)

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Edification

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To make trivial objections. (Verb)

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Quibblle

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Very dangerous or harmful. (Adj)

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Malignant

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A watch or period of watchful attention.

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Vigil

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A departure from the usual or normal course. (Noun)

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Aberration

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To comfort boldly. (Verb)

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Accost

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Artless; innocent; naive. (Adj.)

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Ingenuous

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Conduct; behavior. (Noun)

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Deportment

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Resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.

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Obsterperous

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Using language easily and fluently. (Adj.)

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Articulate

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Intense or extreme enough to cause a stroke or hemorrhage. (Adj.)

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Appolectic

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A speech of bitter dejection. (Noun)

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Philippic

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Considerate, sensitive, or diplomatic. (Adj.)

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Tactful

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Causing fear, apprehension, or dread. (Adj.)

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Formidable

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Cleverly or skillfully evasive or capable of getting away. (Adj.)

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Elusive

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Deeply or seriously thoughtful. (Adj.)

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Pensive

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Deeply respectful. (Adj.)

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Reverent

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Showing no emotion. (Adj.)

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Impassive

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With hand on hip and elbow bent outward. (Adj.)

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Akimbo

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An oddity or peculiarity of conduct. (Noun)

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Eccentricity

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Not possessing. (Adj.)

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Devoid

28
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A piece of furniture having both drawers and a place to hang clothes.

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Chifforobe

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Surveillance; close and continuous watching.

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Scrutiny

30
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To strike or blot out; erase. (Verb.)

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Expunge

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Devoid of interest, tedious, dreary. (Adj.)

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Aridity

32
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Something outrageous or heinous. (Noun)

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Enormity

33
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Anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported. (Noun)

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Contraband

34
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Style of speaking as dependent upon choice of words. (Noun)

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Diction

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Sly, shifty, secretive. (Adj.)

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Furtive

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Not easily stirred; unemotional. (Adj.)

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Stolid

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Compulsion by threat of force. (Noun)

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Duress

38
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The quality or state of not thinking you are better than other people : the quality or state of being humble

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Humility

39
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Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I have never seen him(9).

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Speaker: Scout (Narration)

Context: Unclear, just after Jem and Scout meet Dill.

Significance: -Scout and Jem form a negative opinion about Boo without any real knowledge or experience of him.

-Demonstrates Scout and Jem’s lack of knowledge.

Introduces prejudice, which is having a pre consumption based on someone’s race, religion, or socioeconomic situation.

DEFINE PREJUDICE ON TEST

40
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“Miss Caroline, he’s a Cunningham”(22).

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Speaker: Scout

Context: After Miss Caroline questions Walter
about his food right before lunch in school.

Significance: Scout demonstrates her lack of empathy and knowledge because she doesn’t realize Miss Caroline wouldn’t know about the Cunningham’s due to her living out of town.

DEFINE EMPATHY ON TEST

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“First of all… if you can learn a simple trick… you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”(33).

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Speaker: Atticus

Context: On the Finch’s porch after school.

Significance: Establishes connection between knowledge and empathy as well as showing Atticus is a source for knowledge.

42
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When we went in the house I saw he had been crying, his face was dirty in the right places, but I thought it odd that I had not heard him(71).

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Speaker: Scout (Narration)

Context: After Nathan Radley puts cement in the tree hole.

Significance: Jem feels empathy and realizes Boo is trying to communicate and Nathan is trying to stop it.

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“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”(103).

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Speaker: Maudie Atkinson

Context: Location unclear/ Just after Jem and Scout get their air rifles.

Significance: -This quote introduces one of the central themes of the book: It is wrong to harm those who do no harm.

  • There are 2 symbolic mockingbirds in the book:
    1. Boo Radley – Has never really hurt anyone, yet he is kept in isolation, denied human interaction, and viewed as an evil monster by people in the community.
    2. Tom Robinson
44
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I sometimes feel a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley–what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?(277).

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Speaker: Scout (Narration)

Context: While walking past the Radley.

Significance: Scout is coming to the age where she thinks things through and that raises questions.

45
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“…We are a democracy and Germany is a dictatorship…Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced…“(281).

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Speaker: Miss Gates

Context: Scout’s class after Cecil presents on Hitler.

Significance: Miss Gates’ actions are conflicting with her stated beliefs, making her hypocritical. Also, it reflects the time period where some thought blacks were not people because of the way prejudice was engrained into the society.

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