Q 01/05

In which year was To Kill a Mockingbird first published?

A) 1960

B) 1955

C) 1957

D) 1958

Answer · why

A) 1960

It won the Pulitzer Prize the following year, while it was in its 41st week on the bestseller list.

Q 02/05

What is the name of the fictional Alabama town where the novel is set?

A) Monroeville

B) Maycomb

C) Meridian

D) Mobile

Answer · why

B) Maycomb

It is the county seat of a county of the same name; the story runs across three Depression years, 1933 to 1935.

Q 03/05

What is the narrator Scout's real first name?

A) Mary Alice

B) Sarah Jane

C) Jean Louise

D) Ellen Rose

Answer · why

C) Jean Louise

She is six when the book opens and lives with her brother Jem and their widowed lawyer father.

Q 04/05

Which member of the Finch household is a Black cook who has helped raise the children for years?

A) Miss Maudie

B) Aunt Alexandra

C) Mrs. Dubose

D) Calpurnia

Answer · why

D) Calpurnia

She once punishes Scout for embarrassing the poorer Walter Cunningham at the family table, and Atticus backs her judgment.

Q 05/05

What is the nickname of Charles Baker Harris, the boy who visits each summer?

A) Dill

B) Boo

C) Jem

D) Scout

Answer · why

A) Dill

Lee modelled him on her childhood next-door neighbour Truman Capote, then known as Truman Persons.