To Kill a Mocking Bird: Part one
Test review: Chapters 1-11
English 10
Name: __________________________ #-______
Date: _____________________
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Complete this test by using your notes or of what you already know about the book.
I.
Summarizing ideas. Complete the following chart with the information
provided.
Important
Events
II.
Racism
Secondary
Characters
Main
Characters
Knowing your characters. Complete the following activities by using the
name of the most accurate character according to the information provided.
1. ___________________ The narrator and protagonist of the story. She is intelligent
and a tomboy.
2. ____________________ A recluse who never sets foot outside his house. He is a
powerful symbol of goodness swathed in an initial shroud of creepiness.
3. ____________________ Jem and Scout’s summer neighbor and friend. He
becomes fascinated with Boo Radley and represents the perspective of childhood
innocence throughout the novel.
4. ____________________ The Finches’ neighbor. She shares Atticus’s passion for
justice and is the children’s best friend among Maycomb’s adults.
5. ____________________An elderly, ill-tempered, racist woman who lives near the
Finches. Atticus admires her for the courage with which she battles her morphine
addiction.
II.I Knowing your characters. Pair each character with their following description
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III.
_____ Nathan Radley
_____ Mr. Walter Cunningham
_____ Walter Cunningham
_____ Calpurnia
_____ Aunt Alexandra
_____ Tom Robinson
_____ Atticus Finch
_____ Jeremy Atticus
a) Boo Radley’s older brother
b) A poor farmer and part of the mob
that seeks to lynch Tom Robinson at
the jail.
c) Son of Mr. Cunningham and
classmate of Scout.
d) The Finches’ black cook.
e) Atticus’s sister
f) The black field hand accused of
rape.
g) Scout and Jem’s father, a lawyer in
Maycomb.
h) Scout’s brother and constant
playmate at the beginning of the
story.
Asking questions. Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. Discuss Atticus’s parenting style. What is his relationship to his children like?
How does he seek to instill conscience in them?
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2. Analyze the childhood world of Jem, Scout, and Dill and their relationship with
Boo Radley in Part One.
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3. What is Atticus’s relationship to the rest of Maycomb? What is his role in the
community?
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4. Because exploration of the novel’s larger moral questions takes place within
the perspective of children, do you think the education of children is necessarily
involved in the development of all of the novel’s themes?
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5. Explain the coexistence of good and evil in the book? How is this reflected in
Boo Radley and Tom Robinson?
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6. Explain how the Existence of social inequality is reflected in the novel? How
this affect the Black community in the book?
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7. Do you think Boo Radley is a Symbol in this novel? Why or why not? Explain
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8. Describe the way of being of Scout. Do you think she would become a racist
person? Do you think Atticus is a good role model for her and Jem?
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IV.
Making decisions. Choose the most correct answer.
1. What is Scout’s real name?
(A) Jean Louise Finch
(B) Louise Marie Finch
(C) Louise Scout Finch
(D) Lee Mae Finch
2. Whose house burns down?
(A) Aunt Alexandra’s
(B) Atticus’s
(C) Mr. Underwood’s
(D) Miss Maudie’s
3. What is Boo’s real name?
(A) Hector
(B) Arthur
(C) Riley
(D) Robert
4. What does Scout first find in the knot-hole?
(A) Bird’s nest
(B) Gun
(C) Small bug
(D) Chewing gum
5. Why does Atticus admire Mrs. Dubose?
(A) Because she has courage
(B) Because she is committed to racial equality
(C) Because she is beautiful
(D) Because she is a proud Confederate
6. Who tells Jem that it is a sin to kill mockingbirds?
(A) Atticus
(B) Miss Maudie and Aunt Alexandra
(C) Scout
(D) Dill
7. Where does Boo leave presents for Scout and Jem?
(A) In a box on his porch
(B) In a hole in an oak tree
(C) In their mailbox
(D) On their windowsills
8. Who mends Jem’s pants?
(A) Miss Maudie
(B) Aunt Alexandra
(C) Scout
(D) Boo
9. For what does Uncle Jack reprimand Scout on Christmas Eve?
(A) Cursing
(B) Refusing to play with Francis
(C) Not dressing in a ladylike way
(D) Opening her presents before she was supposed to