Q 01/05
A) Jem
B) Scout
C) Dill
D) Calpurnia
Answer · why
Scout narrates as a grown woman looking back on herself from age six, blending a child's view with adult hindsight.
Q 02/05
A) Boo Radley
B) Tom Robinson
C) Heck Tate
D) Walter Cunningham
Answer · why
Tom Robinson is convicted by an all-white jury despite the evidence, then shot dead while trying to escape from prison.
Q 03/05
A) Nobel Prize
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) National Book Award
D) Booker Prize
Answer · why
Lee won the Pulitzer Prize with her debut novel, then published no other novel until 2015.
Q 04/05
A) Montgomery
B) Tuscaloosa
C) Monroeville
D) Eufaula
Answer · why
Monroeville loosely inspired the novel's fictional town, though Lee denied that the book was autobiographical.
Q 05/05
A) Harper
B) Alice
C) Frances
D) Nelle
Answer · why
Nelle was her grandmother Ellen's name spelled backwards; she dropped it from the book so readers wouldn't say Nellie.
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