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Theme
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Say What?
Who am I?
The Plot
Thickens
Figurative
Language
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In what city/state did Harper Lee grow up?
A 100

Monroeville, Alabama
A 100

What is the name of Harper
Lee’s childhood friend on whom
Dill is loosely based?
A 200

Truman Capote
A 200

What is the name of the trial that served as Harper Lee’s inspiration for the novel?
A 300

The Scottsboro Trials
A 300

What major U.S. crisis has recently befallen the town of
Maycomb?
A 400

The Great Depression
A 400

In what year does the story begin?
A 500

1933
A 500

Name one subject/main idea addressed in the novel that becomes a theme by the novel’s end.
B 100

-Racism/Prejudice
-Injustice
-Coming of Age
-Courage
-Hypocrisy
-Trials
-Treatment of others
B 100

This quote shows Harper Lee’s opinion on which of the novel’s main ideas?
“It’s hard to explain – ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody’s favoring
Negroes over and above themselves” (Lee 144).
B 200

Racism/Prejudice
B 200

The following theme statement is successfully supported by Harper
Lee in the novel, True or False?
“Courage has no roots in violence.”
B 300

True
B 300

What subject/main idea is present in both To Kill a
Mockingbird and the short story
“Poison?”
B 400

Racism/Prejudice
B 400

Create a theme statement based on one of the major subjects/main ideas presented in the novel.
B 500

Teacher’s Discretion
B 500

Who said the following quote:
“Atticus is a gentleman, just like me” (Lee 131).
C 100

Jem
C 100

Who said the following quote:
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand” (Lee 149).
C 200

Atticus
C 200

Who said the following quote:
“…a mob’s always made up of people no matter what” (Lee
210).
C 300

Atticus
C 300

Who said the following quote:
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy” (Lee 119).
C 400

Miss Maudie
C 400

Who said the following quote:
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up.
Your father’s passin’” (Lee 283).
C 500

Rev. Sykes
C 500

The following quote provides a description for which character:
“The cootie’s host showed not the faintest interest in the furor he had wrought” (Lee 26).
D 100

Burris Ewell
D 100

The following quote provides a description for which character:
“She hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted. She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men’s coveralls.”
D 200

Miss Maudie
D 200

The following quote provides a description for which character:
“She was all angles and bones: she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slate and twice as hard.”
D 300

Calpurnia
D 300

The following quote provides a description for which character:
“He boarded across the street from Mrs. Henry Lafayette
Dubose’s house. Besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday, he sat on the porch every night until nine o’clock and sneezed.”
D 400

Mr. Avery
D 400

The following quote provides a description for which character:
“…it came to me that she must be the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier that Boo Radley.”
D 500

Mayella Ewell
D 500

At what point does Atticus become a hero to Scout and Jem?
E 100

When he shoots Tim Johnson,
Harry Johnson’s dog.
E 100

What made the mob abandon their goal?
E 200

Scout’s innocent actions toward
Mr. Cunningham.
E 200

* DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
Why did they decide Tom was guilty?
E 300

Because he said he felt sorry for
Mayella.
E 300

What does Dolphus Raymond drink and why?
E 400

Coca-Cola; because he wants to give the town a reason for the judgment they already pass on him.
E 400

Who stabs Bob Ewell?
E 500

Boo Radley
E 500

“Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacups with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum” (Lee 5).
F 100

Simile
F 100

Boo being called a “malevolent phantom” is an example of what literary element?
F 200

A Metaphor
F 200

“Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin” is an example of what literary device?
F 300

Allusion
F 300

“Our first days of freedom, and we were tired” (Lee 36).
F 400

Situational Irony
F 400

“Jem said he ‘bought cotton,’ a polite term for doing nothing.”
Contains an example of what literary device?
F 500

Euphemism
F 500

The Final Jeopardy Category is:
Theme Statements
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Teacher’s Discretion

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