To Kill a Mockingbird Reading Quizzes

Chapter 1

Questions

1. What painful event happens to Jem when he's thirteen?
2. What does Atticus study in Montgomery?
3. Describe Calpurnia.
4. Who do Atticus’s children meet that summer?
5. What does Jem do at the end of Chapter 1 that scares him?
6. What is the Finch family homestead called?
7. Describe Maycomb.

Answers

1. He breaks his arm
2. Law
3. She is very strict, nearsighted, tyrannical, scares the kids
4. Dill
5. Touches the Radley house
6. Finch's Landing
7. Maycomb is a slow moving town where everyone knows everyone. It's in Alabama, and because it is a small town, not much goes on in.