English Quiz 1

Question 1

His mother won a beautiful baby photo contest with his picture

Answer 1

Dill

Question 2

Scout’s first grade teacher

Answer 2

Miss Caroline

Question 3

A mother figure for Scout and Jem

Answer 3

Calpurnia

Question 4

His home his Meridian, Mississippi

Answer 4

Dill

Question 5

Arthur

Answer 5

Boo Radley

Question 6

Charles Baker Harris

Answer 6

Dill

Question 7

The meanest woman who ever lived

Answer 7

Mrs. Dubose

Question 8

A morphine addict

Answer 8

Mrs. Dubose

Question 9

He says that his father is president of the L and N railroad

Answer 9

Dill

Question 10

He only goes out when the moon is down

Answer 10

Boo Radley

Question 11

He touches the Radley house because he was dared to do it

Answer 11

Jem

Question 12

A prominent Maycomb lawyer

Answer 12

Atticus

Question 13

He is called a pocket Merlin

Answer 13

Dill

Question 14

He claims to have been up in a mail plane 17 times, been to Nova Scotia and seen and elephant

Answer 14

Dill

Question 15

He is accused of a crime against a white woman

Answer 15

Tom Robinson

Question 16

This individual loses his pants when he escapes from the Radley property

Answer 16

Jem

Question 17

The narrator of the story

Answer 17

Scout

Question 18

“One shot”

Answer 18

Atticus

Question 19

When he was nearly thirteen he got his arm broken

Answer 19

Jem

Question 20

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself”

Answer 20

President Roosevelt

Question 21

He is 6 and 1/2 feet tall with a long jagged scar that runs across his face and drooled most of the time

Answer 21

Boo Radley

Question 22

Her house is destroyed by fire

Answer 22

Miss Maudie

Question 23

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience”

Answer 23

Atticus

Question 24

He cemented the hole in the oak tree

Answer 24

Nathan Radley

Question 25

Atticus says this individual was the “bravest person I ever knew”

Answer 25

Mrs. Dubose

Question 26

He cuts the tops off every camellia bus Mrs. Dubose owned

Answer 26

Jem

Question 27

“Your father’s right, mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy”

Answer 27

Calpurnia

Question 28

How old is Jem at the beginning of part two

Answer 28

Twelve years old

Question 29

What is meant by Jen’s alien values

Answer 29

Jem is slowly maturing and wants independence and discourages childish activities that he used to participate in with Scout

Question 30

What do Jem and Scout recognize about Calpurnia while at her church

Answer 30

She talks like the rest of the African-Americans do when she’s at church

Question 31

Who is the individual who represents summer

Answer 31

Dill

Question 32

Why does Dill not come to Maycomb that summer

Answer 32

Him and his new lawyer dad were going to build a boat

Question 33

Why does Rev Sykes lock the doors of the church

Answer 33

There aren’t ten dollars in the church coffee can yet

Question 34

Who comes to live with Jem and Scout

Answer 34

Aunt Alexandra

Question 35

Aunt Alexandra’s attitude towards family

Answer 35

She always wants to make herself known and heard, whether it be in her clothing or her commanding attitude. She also believes that the Finch family is a fine family and, as Scout said “Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was”

Question 36

What does Atticus mean by “it’s not time to worry yet”

Answer 36

There will be a greater cause for worry in the near future