Name: __________________________

English I, Per ___

12 May 2009
Mockingbird Quiz Ch 12-16

Please answer each of the following questions in complete sentences in the space provided. Worth one
point each.

1) Why are some of the black people at Calpurnia’s church hesitant about Scout and Jem going to
church with them?

2) Who is Rev. Sykes colleting money for and what does he do to make sure that they collect all
of the money that they need?

3) Why do the children feel Calpurnia leads a double life?

4) Why doesn’t Atticus want to talk to the children about the long history and pride of the Finch
family?

5) How does Jem “break the remaining code of childhood”?

6) What is the real reason that Dill ran away from home?

7) Where does Dill think he and Scout can get a baby?

8) Why do the men with Heck Tate come to see Atticus?

9) What was Atticus’s “dangerous question”?

10) Where does Atticus sit at church?

11) According to Atticus, how had Scout gotten Mr. Cunningham to “walk around in my shoes”?

12) Why do some people get upset about Miss Maudie’s yard?

13) According to Jem, how does one judge whether or not someone is “colored”?

14) Briefly describe everything you can about Dolphus Raymond.

15) Chapter 16 gives a picture of the customs and social attitudes of a small Southern town in the
late 1930s. What particularly caught your attention? Why?