To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapters 1-11
Quotes Quiz
Arthur “Boo” Radley
Atticus Finch
Aunt Alexandra Finch
Bob Ewell
Calpurnia
Charles Baker “Dill” Harris
Chuck Little
Dolph Raymond
Helen Robinson
Jem Finch
Link Deas
Mayella Ewell
Miss Caroline
Miss Maudie Atkinson
Miss Stephanie Crawford
Mr. Avery
Mr. Underwood
Mr. Walter Cunningham
Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose
Nathan Radley
Scout Finch
Sheriff Heck Tate
Tom Robinson
Walter Cunningham
"You are too young to understand it, but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a
whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh, of your father."
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. . . . That's why it's a sin to kill a
mockingbird."
"I'm just trying to tell you the new way they're teaching the first grade, stubborn. It's the Dewey Decimal
System."
"Do-o-o Jee-sus, Dill Harris! Gamblin' by my fishpool? I'll strip-poker you, sir!"
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb
into his skin and walk around in it."
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not try to win."
"Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You
tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage."
"When I went back for my breeches--they were all in a tangle when I was gettin' out of 'em, I couldn't
get 'em loose. When I went back, they were folded across the fence . . . like they were expectin' me."
"You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors."
"There's some folks who don't eat like us, but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when
they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?"
Calpurnia
"Don't you say hey to me, you ugly girl!"
"Jeremy Finch, I told you you'd live to regret tearing up my camellias. You regret it now, don't you?"
"See what you've done? Hasn't snowed in Maycomb since Appomattox. It's bad children like you makes
the seasons change."
"Tree's dying. You plug 'em with cement when they're sick. You ought to know that, Jem."
Character who first finds gum in knot-hole of tree.
"I won't say you ran out on a dare an' I'll swap you The Gray Ghost if you just go up and touch the
house."
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the
wind blows it all over Maycomb County!"
"If he's not [crazy] he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What
happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets--"
"The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something--!"