Social Inequality

Question 1

Guests

Answer 1

‘No economic fluctuations changes their status - people like the Ewells lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of a depression.’

Question 2

Mixed Child

Answer 2

‘She was as sad, I thought, as what Jem called a mixed child: white people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she was white.’

Question 3

Back Hand

Answer 3

‘Maycomb gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of its hand.’

Question 4

Never Be Like Jem

Answer 4

‘The thing is, you can scrub Walter Cunningham till he shines, you can put him in shoes and a new suit, but he’ll never be like Jem.’

Question 5

Get Along

Answer 5

‘If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?’