To kill a mockingbird quiz #1—lesson 5 (chapters 1-8)

instructions: go to lesson 5 and find the quiz. you’ll notice that the questions there are for red badge of courage. since you read to kill a mockingbird instead, use these questions and mark the corresponding answer on the quiz in the lesson. for example, if the answer to #1 on this quiz is the second choice, mark the second choice for #1 on the quiz in the lesson.

1. who narrates the events in to kill a mockingbird? (1 point)

a. scout (jean louise) finch
b. jem (jeremy atticus) finch
c. calpurnia

2. what is the setting of this novel? (1 point)

a. shortly after the civil war in arkansas
b. a fictional town in alabama called maycomb in the 1930s
c. mississippi in the 1960s

3. before scout starts school, she is very excited about it because she can’t wait to learn to read and write like the older children.

a. true
b. false

4. which of the following is not an element of plot?

a. climax
b. exposition
c. point of view

5. what is the thing scout most looks forward to in the summer?

a. dill's arrival
b. sleeping on the screened porch
c. no school

6. what happens to scout while the neighborhood is watching miss maudie's house burn?

a. she gets frostbite
b. atticus leaves her in their house to sleep
c. someone places a blanket around her shoulders.

7. identify the speaker of the following quote and what literary element it best demonstrates:
”ah-i won ‘em (pants) from him…we were playin’ strip poker up yonder by the fishpool.”

a. jem/dialogue
b. dill/dialect
c. scout/characterization

8. the radley place is said to have “rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oaktrees kept the sun away.” which element of literature is created by this description?

a. atmosphere
b. tone
c. theme

9. which character is most like atticus finch?
a. miss maudie
b. miss stephanie
c. mr. avery