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TKAM Test Review
To Kill a Mockingbird Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dolphus Raymond | the town’s social outcast who only acts drunk |
| Miss Caroline | Scout’s first grade teacher |
| Bob Ewell | attempts to break into Judge Taylor’s house, spits at Atticus, and attacks Jem and Scout |
| Boo Radley | hides surprises in a tree for Jem and Scout and later saves their lives |
| Mrs. Dubose | beat a morphine addiction before dying and shows Jem the true meaning of courage |
| Uncle Jack | taught Jem and Scout to shoot |
| Aunt Alexandra | obsessed with family heritage and name so insists that Scout act like a lady |
| Walter Cunningham Jr. | son of a poor but honest farmer who comes to the Finch house for lunch after Scout attacks him |
| Walter Cunningham Sr. | part of the mob that threatens Tom Robinson at the jail until called out as an individual by Scout |
| Atticus Finch | lawyer who chose to actually defend Tom Robinson, which placed the whole family in danger |
| Mayella Ewell | accused an innocent man of rape to save her own reputation |
| Tom Robinson | falsely accused of rape after attempting to help Mayella Ewell |
| Nathan Radley | cemented the hole in the tree to prevent Boo from communicating with the children |
| Dill Harris | child who spends the summers in Maycomb and asked Scout to marry him |
| Tim Johnson | symbol for the people infects with racism, "Maycomb's usual disease" |
| camilla | symbol for courage |
| snowman | symbol for the social structure of Maycomb which places the white residents above the black residents |
| fire | symbol for the destruction that can cleanse the town and allow them to rebuild something better |
| Miss Maudie | neighbor who explains what Atticus means when he tells the children not a shoot a mockingbird |
| mockingbird | symbol for innocent people who do nothing to harm others |
| blue jay | symbol for aggressive people who harm others |
| empathy | lesson Atticus is trying to teach Scout when he tells her she needs to "climb into his skin and walk around in it" |
| courage | lesson Atticus is trying to teach when he makes Jem read for Mrs. Dubose |