Introduction To To Kill A Mockingbird
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This quiz is aimed to assess your knowledge and understanding of the TKAM pre-reading notes we dicussed in class. This information will prove essentially important when reading the novel, hence the need for this quiz!
- 1.Booker T. Washington warned against the negative effects of lynching for several reasons. Why did he say was the danger of "disregarding the law" against lyching?
- A.
More people would be lunched.
- B.
People would become immune to violence and lynch Whites.
- C.
People would stop following all laws.
- D.
It is a horrific and inhumane act to lynch a person.
- 2.What point does Wells make about the history of Blacks in America?
- A.
Black history in American began with slavery.
- B.
There is no black history in America.
- C.
Blacks have been lynched throughout all recorded history.
- D.
Black history in American began with Reconstruction.
- 3.Why were Jim Crow laws created?
- A.
To covertly discriminate against Blacks
- B.
To prevent Blacks from voting
- C.
To make Whites superior
- D.
To help make Blacks equal
- 4.How has Lee's childhood home affect the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
- A.
The setting is her childhood home.
- B.
Harper's novel is a biography.
- C.
She based the setting of the novel around her childhood home.
- D.
She described events from her childhood in the novel.
- 5.Which of the following is NOT TRUE of both Harper's life and To Kill a Mockingbird?
- A.
Describe a trial
- B.
Raised with a sibling
- C.
Set in the North
- D.
Had childhood friends
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