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To Kill a Mockingbird Quiz - Chapters 18-22
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What word best describes Bob Ewell?
A. drunken
B. ethical
C. overweight
D. well-intentioned
10. Why does Dolphus Raymond pretend to be a drunk?
A. so that he doesn’t get called for jury duty
B. because he thinks it is amusing
C. so other white people can have an excuse for why he
Why does Mayella say that she asked Tom into the house on the
prefers the company of black people
day of the alleged attack?
D. he actually is a drunk; Dill is not telling the truth
A. she wanted to kiss him
B. she needed help tending the children
11. What does Calpurnia’s note to Atticus say?
C. she wanted him to chop up a dresser (chiffarobe)
A. that there is a rabid dog on the Finches’ street
D. she wanted protection from her father
B. that dinner is ready whenever he gets done
C. that the children have been missing since noon
In chapter 18 we learn a startling fact about Tom Robinson that
D. that Tom’s wife has become ill and needs a doctor
casts doubt on the Ewells’ testimony. What is that fact?
A. he wasn’t actually in town that day
12. What, according to Atticus, is the “unmentionable act” that
B. he is left-handed, just like Mr. Ewell
Mayella Ewell has committed?
C. his left hand is crippled and useless
A. lying while under oath
D. he is related by marriage to the Ewells
B. being poor and uneducated
C. failing to supervise her younger siblings
What does Atticus plead with Mayella to admit?
D. having lust for a black man
A. that she was beaten and perhaps raped by her father, not
by Tom Robinson
13. How does Scout know that the jury has found Tom guilty before
B. that she was never actually a victim of an attack
they even speak?
C. that Tom Robinson and she have been lovers for some time
A. they are wearing black
D. that Bob Ewell paid Tom Robinson to attack her in order to
B. she remembers that juries won’t look at a man they’ve
start a trial that would embarrass Atticus
convicted, and they don’t look at Tom
C. she remembers that if a jury stays out so late, they almost
In chapter 19, Tom testifies that Mayella:
always deliver a guilty verdict
A. never even spoke to him on the day of the alleged attack
D. Dill was eavesdropping at the door and told her
B. saved up money so that she and Tom could run away
together to the “big city”
14. What do the black community members in the balcony do after
C. was already beaten and bruised by the time he came into
the trial is over?
the house
A. respectfully applaud for Atticus as he leaves the courtroom
D. saved up money to send the children after ice cream so that
B. storm outside to protest and start a riot
she’d be alone when Tom came to the house
C. dissolve in tears
D. leave as quickly and quietly as possible, to avoid the Ewells
According to Tom, which of the following actually happened?
A. he accidentally hit Mayella while trying to break up the
15. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the trial?
chiffarobe
A. Jem feels disillusioned about the people of Maycomb
B. Tom walked in on Bob Ewell abusing his daughter
B. the children are caught hiding in the courthouse and sent
C. Bob saw Mayella embracing Tom and threatened to kill her
home for dinner
D. Tom kissed Mayella
C. Atticus is pleased that his children have taken an interest in
the case, and encourages them to stay for the remainder
Who gets expelled from the courtroom for speaking out of turn
D. the black community gifts the Finches with food afterward
to defend Tom Robinson?
A. Jem Finch
C. Link Deas
16. What does Miss Maudie tell Jem after the trial?
B. Mr. Gilmer
D. Dolphus Raymond
A. that Tom Robinson has escaped from prison
B. that Atticus is a “nigger-lover”
During cross-examination, what does Tom say that—
C. that Judge Taylor appointed Atticus to the case because he
irrationally—turns the jury against him?
wanted to do the right thing
A. that he has always disliked Mayella
D. that Mayella Ewell has threatened the Finch family
B. that he felt sorry for Mayella
C. that he is deeply in love with Mayella
17. What did Bob Ewell do on the morning after the trial?
D. that everyone in the courtroom is racist
A. spit on Atticus and swore revenge
B. assaulted Tom Robinson at the jail
What does Dill say Mr. Raymond is drinking from the bag?
C. beat Mayella so badly that she was hospitalized
A. Coke
B. beer
D. admitted that he had made up the story
C. ginger ale
D. whiskey