To Kill a Mockingbird Test Study Guide
Format of test: 40 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions
Study your study guides and all notes you have.
Know setting: Maycomb, Alabama; 1930s, during the Depression
Know how Harper Lee’s own life influenced her writing of the novel.
Know about the Scottsboro Boys Trial and how it relates to real life.
Characters:
Scout
Jem
Atticus
Dill
Aunt Alexandra
Tom Robinson
Mayella Ewell
Bob Ewell
Boo Radley
Calpurnia
Miss Maudie
Mrs. Dubose
Heck Tate
Mr. Cunningham
Judge Taylor
Miss Caroline
Reverend Sykes
Walter Cunningham
Know themes of the novel: courage, prejudice, growing up
Be able to explain the significance of the title. Who are mockingbirds in the novel?
Know terms: realism, irony, foil. Be able to give examples of each in the novel.
Quotes: Know the part one quotes on the handout and others.
“I’m little but I’m old.”
“Maycomb’s usual disease”—what is it, and who named it this?
“That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me.”
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin.’”
“…taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him and his shy ways into the limelight—to
me, that’s a sin.”
“They’ve done it before and they’ll do it again and when they do—it seems that only the children weep.”
“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”
“He was a thin leathery man…Miss Stephanie said he was so upright he took the word of God as his only law…”
“She was even lonelier than Boo Radley…”
“You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline…”
“…fell on his knife. He killed himself.”
To Kill a Mockingbird Test Study Guide
Format of test: 40 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions
Study your study guides and all notes you have.
Know setting: Maycomb, Alabama; 1930s, during the Depression
Know how Harper Lee’s own life influenced her writing of the novel.
Know about the Scottsboro Boys Trial and how it relates to real life.
Characters:
Scout
Jem
Atticus
Dill
Aunt Alexandra
Tom Robinson
Mayella Ewell
Bob Ewell
Boo Radley
Calpurnia
Miss Maudie
Mrs. Dubose
Heck Tate
Mr. Cunningham
Judge Taylor
Miss Caroline
Reverend Sykes
Walter Cunningham
Know themes of the novel: courage, prejudice, growing up
Be able to explain the significance of the title. Who are mockingbirds in the novel?
Know terms: realism, irony, foil. Be able to give examples of each in the novel.
Quotes: Know the part one quotes on the handout and others.
“I’m little but I’m old.”
“Maycomb’s usual disease”—what is it, and who named it this?
“That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me.”
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin.’”
“…taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him and his shy ways into the limelight—to
me, that’s a sin.”
“They’ve done it before and they’ll do it again and when they do—it seems that only the children weep.”
“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”
“He was a thin leathery man…Miss Stephanie said he was so upright he took the word of God as his only law…”
“She was even lonelier than Boo Radley…”
“You’re shamin’ him, Miss Caroline…”
“…fell on his knife. He killed himself.”