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To Kill a Mockingbird

Test: Chapters 16-22

1. Which of the following two words best describes the mood in the Finch house the morning after the lynch mob confronts Atticus at the jail?

A. joyful and congratulatory

B. tense and anxious

C. depressed and defeated

D. nonchalant and unconcerned

2. Atticus’s willingness to see past Mr. Cunningham’s “blind spots” after he was part of the lynch mob at the jail reveals what about Atticus’s character?

A. He is ambitious and doesn’t want lose Mr. Cunningham as a legal client.

B. He is well-liked by everyone in town and wants to continue his friendship with Mr. Cunningham, even if they disagree about the subject of racism.

C. He realizes that he’s never going to change some people’s minds about the subject of racism and is now just willing to accept people infected with it.

D. He is insightful and realizes that people are made up of both good and bad qualities that may cause them to behave in certain ways sometimes.

3. What does the mood of the courthouse square on the first day of the trial among the white spectators reveal about the people of Maycomb?

A.   Because there’s hardly any crime in the town of Maycomb, the courthouse is rarely open to the public, and people are eager to see the judicial process in action even if the subject matter is unpleasant or upsetting.

B. Most of the people of Maycomb strongly dislike Bob Ewell and are worried about his children, and are thus extremely excited that something is finally being done about the situation.

C.   People are excited that something interesting and gossip-worthy is happening in their boring town and have lost sight of the fact that a woman has allegedly been raped and a man might receive the death penalty.

D.   The Ewell children are so rarely seen in Maycomb that people have gathered to see how many there really are and what they actually look like and have forgotten that a man is on trial for his life.

4. Harper Lee describes the Maycomb County Courthouse as having, “Greek revival columns clashed with a big nineteenth-century clock tower housing a rusty unreliable instrument, a view indicating a people determined to preserve every physical scrap of the past.” The author’s description of the courthouse emphasizes what about the people living in Maycomb county?

A.   They are not really interested in the courthouse because overall, they spend little time there and it was much more relevant in the past when there were more criminal trials.

B. Because the country is in the midst of a depression, the people of Maycomb are poor and do not see the value in spending money to renovate their courthouse.

C.   The people of Maycomb, like the clock, are unreliable and their actions are unpredictable.

D.   They stubbornly insist on clinging to old ideas and things, even if they stand in the way of progress or improvement.

5. When Scout finds out that Atticus was appointed to defend Tom, she thinks that it was “odd that he hadn’t said anything to us about it -- we could have used it many times in defending him and ourselves.” What is the most likely reason that Atticus did not share this information with his children?

A. By not telling his children, Atticus was hoping that if they thought defending Tom was his choice, they couldn’t blame anyone else for the effect it is having on their family.

B. It was irrelevant whether he chose to defend Tom or he was appointed; given the circumstances of the case and the racism that exists in Maycomb, he feels a moral obligation to do so to the best of his ability regardless.

C. Atticus is worried about his children’s safety at school, and didn’t want to give them “ammunition” that would compel them to fight their classmates in order to defend him.

D. Atticus does not discuss work with his children; he assumed they were too young to understand the concept of a judge appointing an attorney to a client.

6. What is the effect of Harper Lee’s decision to place the children in the balcony with the African- American spectators?

A. The children, completely hidden from the judgemental eyes of the white spectators, won’t cause Atticus greater stress during an already tough job.

B. Atticus has succeeded in his attempts to prevent his children from catching “Maycomb’s usual disease”; they are comfortable in the company of black spectators, and are thus able to see the trial from a unique perspective.

C. If the children would have been sitting in the seats below, they would not have been able to see Tom’s arm and would therefore not have been able to understand Atticus’s defense strategy.

D. The children experience racial prejudice first-hand when they aren’t welcomed by the African-American spectators and understand what Atticus meant by not judging someone until you climb into their skin.

7. How does the mood of the courtroom change abruptly when Bob Ewell takes the stand after Heck Tate’s testimony?

A.   It changes from calm to disorderly.

B.   It changes from formal to amusing.

C. It changes from disrespectful to emotional.

D. It changes from emotional to calm.

8. By portraying Mayella Ewell as both a perpetrator and a victim, Harper Lee is showing readers what?

A. Mayella Ewell should not be trusted because she lives in poverty and will do anything for attention or money.

B. Because she was already most likely a victim of serious abuse, she is more likely to lie.

C. Although readers initially think the situation is Mayella’s fault, Bob Ewell, not Mayella, is the person who should be blamed for the entire situation.

D. Human beings are complex individuals and cannot be neatly categorized.

9. Which of the following statements would Atticus and Dolphus Raymond agree on?

A. Sometimes it’s necessary to lie to people to avoid conflict.

B. People should be judged by their inner qualities instead of their appearance.

C. Children may have interesting insights sometimes, but overall, they do not possess the maturity to truly understand human nature.

D. It’s important to set a positive example for others to follow.

10. Which word best describes Judge Taylor?

A. practical C. anxious

B. cruel D. permissive

11. What is the primary effect of inserting the following description of the black settlement right after a lengthy description of the Ewell property?

“In the frosty December dusk, their cabins looked neat and snug with pale blue smoke rising from the chimneys and doorways glowing amber from the fires inside. There were delicious smells about: chicken, bacon frying crisp as the twilight air.”

A. It illustrates the sharp contrast between the living conditions and provides an additional reason for Bob Ewell’s resentment of African-Americans: they live better than he does.

B. It makes the reader understand how devastating it is for children when they are left without a mother like the Ewell children.

C. It illustrates how poor the Ewells are because the only meat they are ever able to eat is what Mr. Ewell hunts.

D. It makes the reader feel more sympathetic toward Mr. Ewell because he is unable to provide adequately for his family.

12. What word pair best describes Mayella Ewell?

A. lazy and irresponsible

B. impulsive and selfish

C. wounded and lonely

D. rude and disrespectful

13. Which of the following words best describes Mr. Gilmer’s tone toward Tom Robinson during his cross-examination?

A. tactful C. encouraging

B. impatient D. sarcastic

14. What is the most likely meaning of Dolphus Raymond’s words to Scout about Dill?

“Things haven’t caught up with that one’s instinct yet. Let him get a little older and he won’t get sick and cry.”

A. White people have a natural instinct to be racist toward African-Americans.

B. As children grow up, they are exposed to narrow-minded, hateful attitudes of others and repeated exposure makes them numb.

C. As Dill matures, he will be able to better control his emotions in public.

D. When Dill is older, he will come to understand that racial injustice should make him angry, not sad.

15. How does Atticus hope the following words from his closing statement will affect the jury?

“The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption -- the evil assumption -- that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber.”

A. Jury members will realize that they are guilty of stereotyping African-Americans and will free Tom Robinson to ease their own guilt.

B. Atticus hopes that instead of making the assumption that Tom Robinson is lying because of his race, they will instead realize that it’s necessary to stereotype white people, too.

C. Jury members will realize how much the Ewells personally hate all African-Americans and will begin to question whether Bob and Mayella Ewell are telling the truth due to their racist attitudes.

D. Although the jury is white like the Ewells and more likely to believe the word of a white person, Atticus hopes that the members of the jury will not want to be associated with people like the Ewells, and will realize that if differences exist among whites, then it stands to reason that differences exist among African-Americans as well.

16. What does Scout mean when she thinks, “it was like watching Atticus walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger, but watching all the time knowing that the gun was empty” as the jury is returning to deliver its verdict?

A. She realizes that Atticus has been trying to hurt the real offender in the situation -- Bob Ewell -- but is unable to because there is not enough evidence to prove that he’s actually the one that assaulted Mayella.

B. She is realizing that her father has attempted to “protect” the African-American community from the “disease” of racism that constantly threatens them, but no matter what he would have done, he would not have won the case because of racism.

C. Scout is remembering how proud she was the day her father shot the mad dog, and feels the same amount of pride now, because she feels as if the verdict is going to be not guilty.

D. Scout is frustrated that she is watching from afar and is powerless to do anything to help her father, just as she was powerless to help the day he shot the mad dog.

17. Which word best describes Harper Lee’s tone toward the judicial system in this section of the novel?

A. hopeful C. sarcastic

B. hopeless D. complimentary

18. What inference can readers make about Mayella Ewell when she thinks Atticus is mocking her by referring to her as ma’am in the courtroom?

A.     Mayella is a rude and disrespectful person, just like her father.

B.     Mayella is trying to stall because she doesn’t want to answer his tough questions.

C.     Her father calls her ma’am when he is drunk and abusive.

D.     Nobody has ever treated her with respect and civility before.

19. When Atticus says, “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,” he is referring to what?

A.     the sympathy that adults in Maycomb feel toward young children crying over Tom’s verdict

B.     the racism and prejudice that affects adult’s minds, but not the minds of innocent children

C.     his hope that when his children are older, such things won’t make his children cry any more

D.     the immaturity that Scout and Dill show by crying after the trial

20. Jem explains that his childhood was, “like bein’ a caterpillar in a cocoon, that’s what it is. Like somethin’ asleep wrapped up in a warm place.” All of the following events are responsible for Jem breaking free of his cocoon except which one?

A. Jem witnesses the trial and guilty verdict of Tom Robinson.

B. Jem realizes that Boo Radley has been putting treasures in the tree and writes him a note, but cries when he realizes that Mr. Radley has filled in the hole with cement.

C. Jem reads to Mrs. Dubose for a month and receives a camellia flower from her after her death.

D. Jem is courageous enough to accept Dill’s dare and run up and touch the Radley house.

Open-Ended Response:

Compare and contrast Atticus Finch and Dolphus Raymond’s views and attitudes about racism.

CH 16-22 Test Answers

1. B

2. D

3. C

4. D

5. B

6. B

7. A

8. D

9. B

10. A

11. A

12. C

13. D

14. B

15. D

16. B

17. A

18. D

19. B

20. D

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