1.Which of the following quotes BEST supports the conclusion that Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to be more feminine?
a. âWe decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.â
b. âI could have made several answers to this: Calâs a girl, it would be many years before I would be interested in boys, I would never be interested in clothes.â
c. âAunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a gloveâ
d. âI would be called: âJean Louise, come speak to these ladies.ââ
2.Which of the following BEST describes Dill when he appears under Scoutâs bed after running away from home?
a. Clean, well-fed
b. Annoyed, tired
c. Lonely, well-fed
d. Hungry, dirty
3.What does Scout notice about Atticusâ interactions with Aunt Alexandra the morning after she stops the lynch mob?
a. He agrees with her more and more about how to parents Jem and Scout
b. He has begun to subtly mention that she needs to go back to Finchâs Landing
c. He has started to get more and more frustrated with her
d. None of the above
4.Which of the following BEST represents the strategy Atticus uses to question Mayella Ewell during the trial?
a. He mocks her by calling her âmaâamâ and âMiss Mayellaâ
b. He asks straightforward questions to clear up what happened
c. He asks about her personal life to show the jury what her life is like, then disproves her testimony
d. He questions whether she was actually beaten up at all
5.The following quote shows which of the following themes?
âSo it took an eight-year-old child to bring âem to their senses, didnât it? ⌠That proves somethingâthat a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because theyâre still human.â
a. Good will always win over evil
b. The innocence of a child can stop even the worst evil
c. Sometimes good people do bad things
d. Everyone starts off innocent in life
6.Read the following section, then choose the best objective summary of the passage:
âAnd what did you find?â
âFound her lying on the floor in the middle of the front room, one on the right as you go in. She was pretty well beat up, but I heaved her to her feet and she washed her face in a bucket in the corner and said she was all right. I asked her who hurt her and said it was Tom Robinsonââ
a. A lawyer asks Heck Tate what he found when he went to investigate a call about Mayella Ewell, and he describes that he found her in a room of the house. She was beaten up, but after washing herself off, she told Heck Tate that Tom Robinson is the one who hurt her.
b. âWhat did you see?â âI saw her lying on the floor of the front room. She was beaten up. She washed off and I asked her who beat her up. She said it was Tom Robinson.â
c. After being asked what he saw when he arrived at the Ewell house, Heck Tate gives a truthful, well-worded testimony. He is not very descriptive, but gives enough detail for the lawyer to understand who and what he is talking about.
d. None of the above
7.Which of the following BEST represents a theme presented by the trial chapters so far?
a. People believe what they want to be true, not what is necessarily right
b. People in the 1930s and 40s were racist
c. Good will always win out over evil
d. People are born good and learn to become evil
8.How has Jem changed throughout the novel?
a. He has progressively become more and more like Atticus as the book has progressed
b. At the beginning of the book, he was dedicated to school and learning, now he is focusing entirely on football
c. Both A and B
d. At first he was immature and impulsive, now he works to understand the world around him before responding
9.Which of the following BEST represents the importance of Aunt Alexandraâs obsession with the Finch familyâs heritage?
a. She wants Scout and Jem to understand where they come from so they will be like her when they grow up
b. They have famous ancestors so itâs important to understand their heritage
c. Both A and D
d. By caring so much about their heritage, Aunt Alexandra shows how much she cares about how Scout and Jem are raised