To Kill A Mockingbird

Question 0

What was he worried about when he broke his arm

Answer 0

Never being able to play football again

Question 1

How old was Jem when he got his arm broken

Answer 1

Nearly 13

Question 2

What did Scout think caused Jem to break his arm

Answer 2

The Ewells

Question 3

How much older was Jem than Scout

Answer 3

4 years

Question 4

What did Jem think caused him to break his arm

Answer 4

when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

Question 5

What was Scouts broad view on the broken arm

Answer 5

If General Jackson hadn’t run the Creeks up the creek, Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama

Question 6

What was Scout’s great-ancestor’s name

Answer 6

Simon Finch

Question 7

What is Scouts fathers name

Answer 7

Atticus

Question 8

What was the shame of the Finch family

Answer 8

They had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings

Question 9

Who was Simon Finch

Answer 9

a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall

Question 10

Why did Simon leave England

Answer 10

He was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren

Question 11

What was Simons travel path from England

Answer 11

the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens

Question 12

Who was Simon mindful of

Answer 12

John Wesley

Question 13

What did Simon forget

Answer 13

his teacher’s dictum on the possession of human chattels

Question 14

How many slaves did Simon buy

Answer 14

Three slaves and a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens

Question 15

How many times did Simon return to the house

Answer 15

Once

Question 16

What was the name of simon’s homestead

Answer 16

Finch’s landing

Question 17

It was customary for the —— in the family to remain on Finch’s Landing

Answer 17

Men

Question 18

What did the house not produce

Answer 18

ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing

Question 19

Where did the things that weren’t made at the house gotten from

Answer 19

Mobile, AL

Question 20

When did the Finch tradition break

Answer 20

Well into the twentieth century

Question 21

What did the Finch siblings do

Answer 21

Atticus went to Montgomery to read law, his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine, Alexandra remained at landing

Question 22

What did Alexandra’s husband do

Answer 22

He was a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full

Question 23

Maycomb was ——– to Finchs Landing

Answer 23

twenty miles east

Question 24

Atticus' office contained

Answer 24

a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama

Question 25

What had Atticus urged his first two clients to do

Answer 25

plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives

Question 26

Who were the two prisoners

Answer 26

Haverfords

Question 27

What had the Haverfords done

Answer 27

dispatched Maycomb’s leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it- coming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody

Question 28

What did Atticus mainly practice in his first five years at Maycomb

Answer 28

Economy

Question 29

How long did Atticus mainly practice economy

Answer 29

Five years

Question 30

What did Atticus invest his money into

Answer 30

His brothers education

Question 31

What was Atticus' brother's name

Answer 31

John Hale Finch/ Uncle Jack

Question 32

What was Atticus related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.

Answer 32

Simon Finch's industry

Question 33

What kind of | Animals pulled Hoover Carts

Answer 33

Bony mules

Question 34

What trees are referenced in Chapter 1

Answer 34

Oak trees in the city square

Question 35

What did women do during the day

Answer 35

bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps

Question 36

Why was there vague optimism for some people

Answer 36

Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself

Question 37

Where did Scout live

Answer 37

the main residential street in town

Question 38

how did Scout describe Atticus

Answer 38

he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment

Question 39

Who was Scout's cook

Answer 39

Calpurina

Question 40

How does Scout describe Calpurnia

Answer 40

She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard

Question 41

How old was Scout and Jem when there mother died

Answer 41

Scout-2 Jem-6

Question 42

How did Scout's mother die

Answer 42

sudden heart attack

Question 43

How much younger was Scout's mother than Atticus

Answer 43

she was fifteen years his junior.

Question 44

What were Jem's and Scout's summer playing boundaries

Answer 44

Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose’s house two doors to the north of us, and the Radley Place three doors to the south

Question 45

How did Scout describe Radley

Answer 45

unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end

Question 46

Where did Scout find Dill

Answer 46

in Miss Rachel Haverford’s collard patch

Question 47

What did Scout think was in the collard patch

Answer 47

Rat terrier puppies