To Kill a Mockingbird exam quotation list (30 quotations)

Question 1

Tom Robinson x4

Answer 1

1) ‘Looks like she didn’t have nobody to help her. I felt right sorry for her.’
2) ‘No suh, I’s scared I’d be in court, just like I am now.’
3) ‘No suh, scared I’d hafta face up to what I didn’t do.’
4) There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.

Question 2

Atticus Finch (skin)

Answer 2

‘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.’

Question 3

Atticus Finch (conscience)

Answer 3

‘before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’

Question 4

Atticus Finch (courage)

Answer 4

‘I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.’

Question 5

Atticus Finch (mob)

Answer 5

‘A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man.’

Question 6

Atticus Finch (licked years ago)

Answer 6

‘Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.’

Question 7

Atticus Finch (head high)

Answer 7

‘you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with you head for a change’

Question 8

Jem Finch (Negro blood)

Answer 8

‘around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black.’

Question 9

Jem Finch (folks)

Answer 9

‘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?’

Question 10

Jem Finch (Boo Radley)

Answer 10

‘Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because he wants to stay inside.

Question 11

Jem Finch (conviction)

Answer 11

‘Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard.

Question 12

Jem Finch (family)

Answer 12

‘Atticus says you can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kind to you no matter whether you acknowledge ‘em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.’

Question 13

Jem Finch (lawyer)

Answer 13

‘I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!’

Question 14

Scout Finch (tomboy)

Answer 14

‘I don’t see why I have to wear a darn old dress’

Question 15

Scout Finch (entailment)

Answer 15

‘Hey Mr. Cunningham. How’s your entailment getting along?’

Question 16

Scout Finch (question)

Answer 16

‘If you shouldn’t be defending him, then why are you doing it?’

Question 17

Scout Finch (bravery)

Answer 17

‘It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.’

Question 18

Scout Finch (folks)

Answer 18

‘I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Question 19

Scout Finch (slaughter)

Answer 19

‘Mr Underwood…likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children’

Question 20

Scout Finch (perspective)

Answer 20

‘Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.’

Question 21

Scout Finch (algebra)

Answer 21

‘As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn’t much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra’

Question 22

Miss Maudie (Roman carnival)

Answer 22

‘watching a poor devil on trial for his life. Look at all those folks, it’s like a Roman carnival.’

Question 23

Miss Maudie (baby steps)

Answer 23

‘Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. And I thought to myself, well, we’re making a step—it’s just a baby- step, but it’s a step.’

Question 24

Dolphus Raymond (hell)

Answer 24

‘the hell white people give colored folks, without ever stopping to think that they’re people too’

Question 25

Calpurnia (Bob Ewell)

Answer 25

‘There goes the meanest man God ever blew breath into.’

Question 26

Calpurnia (Walter Cunningham)

Answer 26

‘Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it doesn’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ’em.’

Question 27

Aunt Alexandra (lady)

Answer 27

‘After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.

Question 28

Aunt Alexandra (campaign)

Answer 28

‘This was a part of her campaign to teach me how to be a lady.’