To kill a mockingbird test notes
- 1. To Kill a MockingbirdNotes for Final Test
- 2. Characters by DescriptionAtticus Finch… he wore glasses. He was nearly blind in his left eye…… he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or smoke. He sat in the living room and read.Jem Finch… stayed moody and silent for a week.
- 3. Characters by DescriptionScout (Jean Louis) FinchHer use of bathroom invective leaves nothing to the imagination. But she doesn’t know the meaning of half she says…Calpurnia…her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard.
- 4. …led a modest double life…Characters by DescriptionDillHe wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duck-fluff.Boo Radley…a malevolent phantom.…sickly white hands that had never seen the sun.
- 5. Characters by DescriptionMiss Maudie…a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men’s coveralls…Tom RobinsonHis left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side.
- 6. Characters by DescriptionBob Ewell…a little bantam cock of a man…the back of his neck reddening at the sound of his name.MayellaEwell…must have been the loneliest person in the world…even lonelier than Boo Radley…
- 7. Characters by DescriptionMrs. DuboseHer face was the color or a dirty pillowcase, and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet……plain hell.Miss Stephanie…a neighborhood scold…(who relates a gossipy story about Boo driving his scissors into Mr. Radley’s leg).
- 8. Characters by DescriptionMiss CarolineShe had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish.Aunt Alexandra…she had a river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it……analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
- 9. Characters by DescriptionJudge Taylor…looking like a sleepy old shark, his pilot fish writing rapidly below in front of him.
- 10. SettingThe doors of First Purchase Churchare shut until ten dollars has been collected for Helen Robinson.Atticus shoots the mad dog as it advances slowly up Scout and Jem’s street.The children sit with Reverend Sykes in the Colored Balcony, which runs along three walls upstairs in the courtroom.
- 11. SettingBob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout under the big oak tree as they walk home at night through the schoolyard.In rainy weather the streets of Maycomb turn to red slop.Two live oaks, one with a knot-hole, stand at the edge of the Radley Place.
- 12. SettingJem whacks the to off every camellia bush in the yard outside Mrs. Dubose’s house.Atticus sits in his office chair alone one night outside the Maycomb jail.Finch’s Landing is the family homestead and still the home of Aunt Alexandra and her husband, Uncle Jimmy.
- 13. SettingThe Ewell’s home is located behind the town garbage dump and is surrounded by gleanings from the dump.
- 14. Notes Reverend Sykes helps the children find a place to sit in the crowded courtroom.Sheriff Tate hides Boo Radley’s involvement in Bob Ewell’s death.Walter Cunningham’s family are poor but hard-working farmers
- 15. NotesDill introduces to Scout and Jem the idea of making Boo Radley come out.The Ewell children attend school only on the first day.MayellaEwell is a thick-bodied, strong built woman.
- 16. NotesAunt Alexandra is concerned about Atticus’s safety and health.Miss Caroline is angered and flustered by Scout’s ability to read.Miss Maudie’s house burns to the ground.
- 17. NotesScout asks to visit Calpurnia at her home in the Quarters, but never does.Only a few members of the First Purchase church can read.Uncle Jack scolds Scout when she fights with Cousin Francis.
- 18. NotesThe Missionary Society ladies are prejudiced and hypocritical.Mr. Underwood, who despises blacks, writes an editorial condemning Tom’s shooting death.Nathan Radley fires a shotgun at the children.
- 19. Who…? What…?Mr. Nathan RadleyBoo Radley’s older brother who cements up the knot-hole.Tim JohnsonThe mad/rabid dog“…the deadest shot in Maycomb County.”Miss Maudie tells Scout about Atticus’s reputation as “Ol’One-Shot” on the day he shoots Tim Johnson.
- 20. Who…? What…?Mr. Raymond DolphusA white man from an old family who lives with a black woman and has children of mixed race.ZeeboCalpurnia’s oldest son, whom she taught to read.Conducts the “linin’” at First Purchase.The garbage man.