A series of brief questions to test IGCSE pupil knowledge on Harper Lee's novel.

1. 45 chances to test how well
you know the novel…
To Kill a Mockingbird

2. • Scout Finch
• Jem Finch
• Atticus Finch
• Calpurnia
• Aunt Alexandra
• Uncle Jack
• Mrs. Dubose
• Heck Tate
• Arthur Radley
• Nathan Radley
• Miss Maudie
• Miss Stephanie
• Tom Robinson
• Link Deas
• Bob Ewell
• Mayella Ewell
• Mr. Cunningham
• Dill Harris
• Mr. Gilmer
• Rev. Sykes
• Judge Taylor
• Miss Rachel
The answer to
each question
will be one of
the following:

3. 1 My arm was mangled in farm machinery when I was a boy.

4. 2 I’m proud of my son, who leads the First Purchase
congregation with linin’

5. 3 I am the person whose questioning of Tom Robinson
makes Dill physically ill.

6. 4 As his employer, I feel compelled to speak in defense of
Tom, a good man.

7. 5 I try to spruce up my home with red geraniums.

8. 6 I beat my addiction and die on my own terms.

9. 7 My wife died when my kids were just two and six years
old.

10. 8 Jack Finch flirts with me, but I’d never marry him.

11. 9 My real name is Jean Louise, but no one calls me that.

12. 10 My real first name is Charles, but no one calls me that.

13. 11 My real first name is Jeremy, but no one calls me that.

14. 12 I think my grandson Francis is a much better child than
Scout.

15. 13 I need to gain weight so I can play football for the high
school team.

16. 14 I seem to always find redbugs on my legs that need
scratching.

17. 15 I’m not the straightest shot, so I give my gun to Atticus.

18. 16 A legal entanglement keeps me from being able to sell
my land.

19. 17 My nephew thinks I drink more than I should.

20. 18 I carve excellent dolls out of bars of soap.

21. 19 When foot-washin’ Baptists criticize me, I just recite
Bible verses right back at them.

22. 20 Since Atticus refuses to do it, I’m the one to teach Jem
and Scout how to shoot their rifles.

23. 21 I cement over the knot hole in the tree in front of my
house

24. 22 I speak exactly five words in the entire novel.

25. 23As a kid, my nickname was Ol’ One-Shot.

26. 24 Miss Maudie stays with me while her new house is
being built.

27. 25 Instead of smoking cigars, I prefer to munch them.

28. 26 I said:
“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town
when I first knew it.”

29. 27 I Said: “Scout, it’s nothing but Coca-Cola.”

30. 28 I said:
“When a child asks you something, answer him for
goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children
are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than
adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.”

31. 29 I asked: “How could they do it, how could they?”

32. 30 I Said: “Let the dead bury the dead.”

33. 31 I Said: “So you brought that dirty little sister of yours,
did you?”

34. 32 I Said: “I’ll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house
as he is on the public streets.”

35. 33 I Said: “Mr. Finch? They gone?”

36. 34 I Said: “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”

37. 35 I Said: “Whatcha going to be when you grow up, Jean
Louise? A laywer?”

38. 36 I Said: “I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown….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.”

39. 37 I Said: “I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a
girl it’s mortifyin’.”

40. 38 I Said: “Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to
try more’n the rest of ‘em–”

41. 39 I Said: “With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent
seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a
sermon.”

42. 40 I Said: “So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ‘em to
their senses...”

43. 41 I Said: “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.”

44. 42 I Said: “You may commence reading, Jeremy.”

45. 43 I Said: “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority
rule is a person’s conscience.”

46. 44 I Said: “I found some funny-looking pieces of muddy-
colored cloth–”

47. 45 I Said: “Will you take me home?”