To Kill a Mockingbird

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Walter

Mayella was afraid of Tom.

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Mrs. Merriweather

The novel is written in what point of view?

Identify the character involved in the following scene, quote, or characteristic.

"Let the dead bury the dead."

What rhetorical technique is being used in the following passage?

"His food doesn't stick going down, does it?"

What rhetorical technique is being used in the following passage?

After Dill reduced Dracula to dust

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Miss Stephanie

Identify the character involved in the following scene, quote, or characteristic.

"Report and be damned to ye!"

What was the significance of the following?

"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'."

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Heck Tate

What is the rhetorical technique and purpose in the following passage?

But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Dolphus Raymond

Tom was there, on the day in question, to break up a chiffarobe.

All of the following are early indications that the urban myths about Boo Radley are probably untrue except

Identify the character involved in the following scene, quote, or characteristic.

"They fired a warning shot into the air, then they shot to kill."

What rhetorical technique is being used in the following passage?

Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning.

All of the above could provoke discussion about the theme of social class prejudice except:

Tom had relations with Mayella.

What was the significance of the following?

"Oh that's right. I remember now. It was her right eye."

Identify the character involved in the following scene, quote, or characteristic.

Everybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a streak: a Drinking streak, a Gambling streak, a Mean streak, a Funny streak...

What rhetorical technique is being used in the following passage?

(Bob Ewell) "I've asked this county for fifteen years to clean out that nest down yonder, they're dangerous to love around 'sides devaluin' my property."

Tom went into the yard several times to help Mayella.

Why did the jury find Tom guilty?

Which embodies the theme of "the outcast being misunderstood"?

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Mrs. Dubose

All are reasons why this novel remains relevant in today's society except:

Tom wanted to leave, but Mayella held onto him.

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Miss Caroline

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Miss Maudie's fire

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Burris Ewell

Why was Mayella upset at Atticus?

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Miss Rachel

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Atticus shooting a dog

What rhetorical technique is being used in the following passage?

"She's seeing too many snakes in the closet."

Which embodies the theme of friendship?

Bob never touched a hair on Mayella's head.

Identify the character involved in the following scene, quote, or characteristic.


"Miss Caroline? He's a Cunningham."

What rhetorical technique is being used in the following passage?

Bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks in the square.

What rhetorical technique is being used in the following passage?

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.

Which scene best embodies the theme of justice?

Bob hit Mayella.

Why did shooting the dog worry Atticus?

The evidence for the Southern setting is all of the above except:

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Dill

What rhetorical technique is being used in the following passage?

Atticus said that Mr. Radley "bought cotton."

The book contains scenes and characters that might seem irrelevant to the main story at first glance, but after considering them on a deeper level, we realize how significant the first part of the book is. Consider each character and/or scene, and select the answer as to why each is significant.

Mrs. Merriweather

How did Atticus react when Bob spit in his face?

What would have been different about the jury if the story happened today?

Mayella had fingerprints all around her neck.