6. $300 Question from Allusions
There was no hurry, for there was
nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no
money to buy it with, nothing to see
outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.
8. $400 Question from Allusions
Simon would have regarded with
impotent fury the disturbance between
the North and South, as it left his
descendants stripped of everything
but their land…
22. $100 Question from Vocab
Until Jem and Dill excluded me from their plans,
she was only another lady in the neighborhood,
but a relatively benign presence.
26. $300 Question from Vocab
She married a taciturn man who spent
most of his time lying in a hammock
by the river wondering if his trot-lines
were full.
28. $400 Question from Vocab
She was a less than satisfactory source
of palliation, but she did give Jem a
hot biscuit-and-butter which he tore
in half and shared with me.
30. $500 Question from Vocab
When it healed, and Jem’s fears of
never being able to play football were
assuaged, he was seldom
self-conscious about his injury.
33. $100 Answer from Review
Scout already has more education than her
classmates. Her life is not as hard as those of
her classmates, and she has the luxury of
having a professional father who is
well-educated. She is interested in learning
where her classmates are more concerned with
helping their families survive and where their
next meal will come from.
35. $200 Answer from Review
If the truant officer enforced the law, their dad
would probably go to jail. As bad as things
were for the Ewell children, they likely would
have been even worse off without their father.
Because their home life was so unusual, the
authorities bent the rules for them (such as
hunting out of season).
37. $300 Answer from Review
She talks and acts like her black friends and
neighbors when she is with them, and she talks
and acts more like the white people of Maycomb
when she is with them.
41. $500 Answer from Review
There is a different kind of courage
than physical courage like a man with
a gun—courage is knowing you are
beat before you start but doing it
anyway because it is the right thing to do.
42. $100 Question from Quotes
“He ain’t Company, Cal, he’s just a
Cunningham.”
46. $300 Question from Quotes
“You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his
point of view … until you climb into
his skin and walk around in it.”
50. $500 Question from Quotes
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but
make music for us to enjoy. They
don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t
nest in corncribs, they don’t do one
thing but sing their hearts out for us.
That’s why it’s a sin to kill a
mockingbird.”