TKAM Chapters 1-3 Quiz

Based on context, choose the most likely meaning of the word assuaged in the following sentence.

“When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.”

• 
  formally withdrawn

• 
  made to feel less intense

• made to feel helpless

• 
  intensified

Based on context, choose the most likely meaning of the word eccentric in the following sentence.

“Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.”

• 
  ordinary and natural

• unconventional and slightly strange

• childish and foolish

• 
  annoying and highly bothersome

Based on context, choose the most likely meaning of the word condescended in the following sentence.

“Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one's parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.”

• 
  protested

• concluded

• 
  preferred

• 
  agreed

Based on context, choose the most likely meaning of the word iniquities in the following sentence.

“Jem and Walter returned to school ahead of me: staying behind to advise Atticus of Calpurnia's iniquities was worth a solitary sprint past the Radley Place.”

• kindness

• 
  misdeeds

• 
  lies

• 
  insults

Match the character with the correct description.

• 
  

  "He was the filthiest human I had ever

• 
  

  Calpurnia

• "He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned

• 
  

  Charles Baker (Dill) Harris

• He "looked as if he had been raised on f

• 
  

  Atticus Finch

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  "When [he] was admitted to the bar, he

• Burris Ewell

• "She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks

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  Walter Cunningham