Bob Ewell

Question 1

Exclusive Society

Answer 1

‘He said that the Ewells members of an exclusive society made up of Ewells. In certain circumstances the common fold judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of some of the Ewells’ activities.’

Question 2

Hunger Pains

Answer 2

‘It’s against the law, all right… and it’s certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief cheques on green whisky his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.’

Question 3

Guests

Answer 3

‘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 4

Better

Answer 4

‘All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbour was, that if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.’

Question 5

Fooled

Answer 5

‘Smugness faded from it, replaced by a dogged earnestness that fooled Judge Taylor not at all’

Question 6

Get Him

Answer 6

‘spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life.’

Question 7

Grudge

Answer 7

‘That man seems to have a permanent running grudge against everybody connected with that case.’

Question 8

Believed

Answer 8

‘It might be because he knows in his heart that very few people in Maycomb really believed his and Mayella’s yarns. ‘

Question 9

Liquor

Answer 9

‘Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He’s never have met you face to face.’