Chapter 1 says, "When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident." What does that sentence establish about the narrator?

The novel's first sentence names Jem's broken arm, then the story goes back years and does not reach the injury again until the closing chapters. What does that structure do?

Chapter 10 opens, "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty." Whose judgment is the word "feeble"?

Later in chapter 10 Miss Maudie tells Scout that Atticus "was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time" and calls after him, "I saw that, One-Shot Finch!" What does putting this after Scout's complaints about her father do?

Chapter 1 says, "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it." What does the phrase "when I first knew it" signal?

In chapter 7, with Jem moody and silent, Scout says: "As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it." What does the narration gain by repeating Atticus's phrase here?

Atticus tells Jem, "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Scout asks Miss Maudie why. What reason does Miss Maudie give?

Mr. Underwood's editorial likens Tom Robinson's death to "the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children." Scout cannot see how, since Tom "had been tried openly." What does she decide he means?

Waiting for the mad dog, Scout says, "The trees were still, the mockingbirds were silent." Lee brings that exact image back later. Where?

On the porch Scout tells Atticus, "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" What is she saying it about?

Heck Tate says that taking "the one man who's done you and this town a great service an' draggin' him with his shy ways into the limelight--to me, that's a sin." What service does he mean?

Walking to the Halloween pageant, Jem says, "Boo must not be at home. Listen," and "a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in." Where is that bird singing?

Atticus tells Scout, "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." Which moment shows her finally doing it?

Atticus says real courage "is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." Whom is he describing?

Scout asks, "Atticus, are we going to win it?" He answers, "No, honey," then: "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win." What is he explaining?

Atticus tells Jem, "In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins." Which event in the novel has just borne him out?

In the last chapter Scout says Boo "gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives." Where did those things come from?

Scout asks whether Boo Radley is still alive, and Miss Maudie answers, "His name's Arthur and he's alive." Which moment finally proves her right to Scout?

Heck Tate says flatly, "Bob Ewell fell on his knife. He killed himself." What belief of Atticus's is Tate arguing against on the porch?

The justice plot ends with no hearing at all: Heck Tate says, "There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time." What is the effect of ending it this way?

Tom Robinson is convicted, and then killed at the prison fence with seventeen bullet holes in him. What does placing his death after the trial do to the novel's plot of justice?

The novel ends with Scout's "Atticus, he was real nice..." and his reply, "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them." What does closing on this exchange do?

Three of these are true of Tom Robinson's trial. Which is NOT?

Three of these are true of what follows the verdict. Which is NOT?

Three of these are true of the night Bob Ewell attacks the children. Which is NOT?