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TKAM test review
To Kill a Mockingbird novel - final test review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| "Thank you for my children, Arthur." | Atticus |
| "Secretly, Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to tlive." | Dolphus Raymond |
| "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." | Atticus |
| "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" | Scoutr |
| "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." | Atticus |
| ..."there's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em." | Heck Tate |
| "Hey, Boo." | Scout |
| "Cry about the simple hell people give other people - without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too." | Dolphus Raymond |
| "I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside." | Jem |
| "I many not be much, Mr. Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife." | Heck Tate |
| "The way that man called him 'boy' all the time and sneered at him...hasn't anybody got any business talking' like that -- it just makes me sick." | Dill |
| "As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something, and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes fro | Atticus |
| "I tell you there are some good but misguided people in this town...folks in this town who think they're doing right, I mean." | Mrs. Merriweather |
| "There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off." | Dill |
| "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep." | Atticus |
| "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy." | Miss Maudie |
| "Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple." | Miss Maudie |
| "Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad. | Scout |
| "Let the dead bury the dead." | Heck Tate |
| "In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson." | Atticus |
| "I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try moren'n the rest of 'em." | Tom Robinson |
| "He took advantage of me. An' if you fine, fancy gentlemen ain't gonna do nothing' about it, then you're just a bunch of lousy, yella, stinkin' cowards..." | Mayella Ewell |
| Mrs. Dubose's last camellia to Jem represents - | forgiveness |
| The mad dog represents... | racism and prejudice |
| Scout's overalls represent... | childhood |
| Tom Robinson's trial and death represent... | racism and prejudice |
| the character o Stoner's Boy in the story, The Gray Ghost represents... | stereotypes |
| Boo's gifts to the children in the knothole represent... | friendship |
| the ladies in the Ladies Missionary Circle represent... | hypocrisy, racism/prejudice |
| the lynch mob represents... | racism/prejudice, hatred |
| Mayella's geraniums represent... | foolishness and stupidity |
| setting | 1930's (1933-1935) |
| city/state | Maycomb, Alabama |
| events going on in the world | Great Depression, Nazis taking over Germany |
| point-of-view of the story | first person |
| narrator | Scout (Jean Louise) Finch |
| Themes | tolerance of others, racism/prejudice, Hypocrisy, doing the right thing/having a clear conscience, friendship, maturity/coming-of-age, courage, man's inhumanity to man, Christianity |
| What lesson does Scout learn in the end? | people are really nice when you take the time to really "see" them - look at life through their eyes and realize where they are coming from. |
| Scout's first grade teacher | Miss Caroline Fisher |
| An upright farmer who refuses to accept charity | Mr. Walter Cunningham, Sr. |
| The sheriff | Heck Tate |
| Atticus' daughter | Jean Louise (Scout) Finch |
| The cook for the Finches | Calpurnia |
| an open-minded neighbor of the Finches | Miss Maudie |
| a gossipy neighbor | Miss Stephanie Crawford |
| a lawyer who defends a black man | Atticus Finch |
| the bachelor uncle, a doctor | Jack Finch |
| owner of the town's newspaper | Mr. Underwood |
| the prosecuting attorney | Mr. Gilmer |
| Scout's older brother | Jeremy (Jem) Finch |
| an old lady who beats her morphine addiction | Mrs. Dubose |
| she accuses Tom Robinson of rape | Mayella Ewell |
| a white man who prefers to live with black people | Dolphus Raymond |
| the mysterious neighbor whom the children have never seen | Arthur (Boo) Radley |
| A hard working black man accused of rape | Tom Robinson |
| Dill's aunt; neighbor to the Finches | Miss Rachel |
| Lives with the Finches while the trial is going on | Alexandra Hancock |
| Scout's friend who only visits in the summer | Dill Harris |
| The brother of Arthur who seldom speaks | Nathan Radley |
| poor white trashy father who beats his children | Bob Ewell |
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