To Kill a Mockingbird - Themes (CCEA) test questions - CCEA

The people at Tom Robinson’s trial are shocked by what about Tom?

When Aunt Alexandra first meets Calpurnia, how does she treat her?

Which theme is highlighted in the following passage?

She said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody. Jem, when you're as sick as she was, it's all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn't all right for her. She said she meant to break herself of it before she died, and that's what she did. (Atticus to Jem)

Who says the following line and to whom?

In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins.

Who uses the word darky to describe black people at Aunt Alexandra’s missionary tea?

After Boo Radley has rescued Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell and taken them home, he asks to be taken home. The reader is told, He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark. What does this tell us about Boo as a person?

Why do Jem and Scout call their father Atticus instead of Dad?

The term white trash refers to white people who:

Which character is particularly concerned with family heritage?

Why has Atticus kept his ability to shoot secret from Jem and Scout?