Unit Test: To Kill A Mockingbird I.

Read each of the following questions and fill in the appropriate letter on your answer sheet. 1. What is Scouts real name? (A) Jean Louise Finch (B) Louise Marie Finch (C) Louise Scout Finch (D) Lee Mae Finch 2. What is the verdict in the Tom Robinson case? (A) Innocent (B) Guilty (C) The jury is hung. (D) The judge calls a mistrial. 3. Whose house burns down? (A) Aunt Alexandras (B) Atticuss (C) Mr. Underwoods (D) Miss Maudies 4. Who is the editor of the local newspaper? (A) Mr. Raymond (B) Atticus (C) Mr. Underwood (D) Heck Tate 5. Who insists that Bob Ewells death is an accident? (A) Heck Tate (B) Atticus (C) Scout (D) Boo Radley 10. Who founded Finchs Landing? (A) Atticus 9. Why does Atticus admire Mrs. Dubose? (A) Because she has courage (B) Because she is committed to racial equality (C) Because she is beautiful (D) Because she is a proud Confederate 8. What does Dill find in Dolphus Raymonds bottle? (A) Wine (B) Whiskey (C) Coca-Cola (D) Water 7. What does Scout first find in the knothole? (A) Birds nest (B) Gun (C) Small bug (D) Chewing gum 6. What is Boos real name? (A) Hector (B) Arthur (C) Riley (D) Robert

(B) Simon Finch (C) Uncle Jack (D) Jasper Finch

Dill? (A) Ernest Hemingway (B) Mary McCarthy (C) Gustave Flaubert (D) Truman Capote

11. How did Miss Caroline learn her educational techniques? (A) From long experience (B) From a magazine article (C) From talking to other teachers (D) From college courses 12. Who is the president of the United States at the time that the events of the story occur? (A) Theodore Roosevelt (B) Harry Truman (C) Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) John F. Kennedy 13. Who tells Jem that it is a sin to kill mockingbirds? (A) Atticus (B) Miss Maudie and Aunt Alexandra (C) Scout (D) Dill 14. Where does Dill live during the school year? (A) Arkansas (B) Mississippi (C) Georgia (D) Boston 15. On what writer did Harper Lee base 19. How old is Jem when the action of the novel starts? (A) 8 (B) 7 18. Whose actions lead Mr. Cunningham to disperse the lynch mob? (A) Atticuss (B) Scouts (C) Jems (D) Mr. Underwoods 17. Who beat Mayella Ewell? (A) Bob Ewell (B) Boo Radley (C) Tom Robinson (D) Heck Tate 16. Who tucks Scout in at the end of the novel? (A) Aunt Alexandra (B) Boo Radley (C) Atticus (D) Heck Tate

23. Who mends Jems pants? (A) Miss Maudie (C) 10 (B) Aunt Alexandra (D) 9 (C) Scout (D) Boo 20. What are Jem and Scout shocked to discover about Atticus? (A) That he can play the fiddle (B) That he can swim faster than any man in Maycomb (C) That he is the best shot in Maycomb County (D) That he is a prize-winning songwriter 22. Where does Boo leave presents for Scout and Jem? (A) In a box on his porch (B) In a hole in an oak tree (C) In their mailbox (D) On their windowsills 24. Who runs away from home? (A) Scout (B) Jem (C) Dill (D) Francis 25. For what does Uncle Jack reprimand Scout on Christmas Eve? (A) Cursing (B) Refusing to play with Francis (C) Not dressing in a ladylike way (D) Opening her presents before she was supposed to

21. Who takes the children to the black church? (A) Calpurnia (B) Miss Maudie (C) Helen Robinson (D) Reverend Sykes

Section II. Read the following questions and place the letter of the correct answer on your paper.

1. Which of the following contain the steps in the Toulmin model? A. claim, backing, subplot, point of view, backing, plot B. claim, grounds, warrant, rebuttal, backing, qualifier C. grounds, rebuttal, parallel plot, summarizing, ethos, pathos

2. Which of the following contain the types of persuasive techniques? A. plot, subplot, parallel plot B. persuasion, argumentative, Rhetoric c. ethos, pathos, logos

3. Who said the following line? "Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets". A. Miss Maudie B. Calpernia C. Reverend Sykes

4. If a character in a story tells the story, this is what point of view? A. third person limited B. third person C. first person

5. If I want to read a text or passage, then restate the meaning of the text in my own words, I would be using: A. summarizing B. paraphrasing

Section III: Constructed Response:

Early in the novel, Atticus says that you have to climb in someone's skin and walk around in it before you can really understand him or her.

1. In the novel , whose skin would you most want to walk around in? 2. Why? 3. In whose skin, would you least want to walk in? 4. Why?

Write a 5 paragraph essay explaining your response to these questions.

Name ____________________________ Class Period ____________ Date ___________ Score _______________

Name ______________________________ Class Period ______________ Date _____________ Score _______________

Constructed Response Question:

Answers Section I. 1-25

1.a 2.b 3.d 4.c 5.a 6.b 7d. 17.a 18.b 19.d 20.c 21.a Section II. 1-5 1 b 2.c 3.a 4.c 5.b

8.c 9.a 10.b 11.d 12.c 22. b 23.d 24.c 25.a

13.a

14.b

15.d

16.c

Section III. Answers will vary