TKAM Ch 1-4 Quiz

The novel is set in:

• Tennessee

• Georgia

• Alabama

• Virginia

From whose point of view is the story being told?

• Jem's

• Scout's

• Atticus's

• Calpurnia's

Why didn’t Walter Cunningham have a lunch?

• He forgot it

• It was stolen

• He gave it away

• He was too poor

Why did Calpurnia make Scout finish her lunch in the kitchen?

• Scout was being rude

• Scout refused to eat

• Scout was taking too long to eat

• Calpurnia was just being mean

Back at school, what caused Miss Caroline to scream?

• she saw bugs in a child’s hair

• she was mad at the children

• she saw a mouse

• the children played a trick on her

Who cusses at Miss Caroline and brings her to tears?

• Scout

• Burris Ewell

• Cecil Jacobs

• Walter Cunningham, Jr.

Who takes care of Miss Caroline and tries to soothe her on multiple occasions as she learns to adjust to the ways of Maycomb?

• Burris Ewell

• Cecil Jacobs

• Little Chuck Little

• Scout

Which line of text best supports the idea that Scout idolizes her brother?

• A I had spent most of my day climbing up and down, running errands for him, providing him with literature, nourishment and water, and was carrying him blankets

  for the night when Atticus said if I paid him no attention to him, Jem would come down.

• Rather than risk a tangle with Calpurnia, I did as Jem told me.

• Jem arbitrated, awarded me the first push with an extra time for Dill, and I folded myself inside the tire.

• I could only hope that Jem would outrun the tire and me, or that I would be stopped by a bump in the sidewalk. I heard him behind me, chasing and shouting.

When Scout describes the tinfoil “winking at her” from the knot-hole, what is she trying to communicate?

• The tinfoil was reflecting the sunlight at her.

• Someone was looking at her from behind the knot-hole.

• There was an animal in the tree next to the tinfoil .

• The tinfoil was folded into a little piece she could barely see.

How is the plot structure of the novel significant?

• A Harper Lee starts the novel before Jem and Scout were even born to allow the reader to understand their heritage.

• A Harper Lee starts the novel in the middle so that readers are forced to make assumptions about the family’s past.

• A Harper Lee starts the novel at the end so that readers know some detail about the final outcome, but don’t yet know what events lead up to it.

• A Harper Lee starts the novel when Jem and Scout are very young so that she can describe in detail their entire childhoods.