To Kill a Mockingbird - Characters test questions - WJEC - GCSE English Literature Revision

1

Read the extract from To Kill A Mockingbird and answer questions 1-3 below.

When Boo Radley shuffled to his feet, light from the living room windows glistened on his forehead. Every move he made was uncertain, as if he were not sure his hands and feet could make proper contact with the things he touched. He coughed his dreadful raling cough, and was so shaken he had to sit down again. His hand searched for his hip pocket, and he pulled out a handkerchief. He coughed into it, then he wiped his forehead.

Having been so accustomed to his absence, I found it incredible that he had been sitting beside me all this time, present. He had not made a sound.

How does Boo Radley feel about being out of his house and in the house where Scout and Jem live?

Boo is enjoying the opportunity to look inside the house where Scout and Jem live

Boo is extremely nervous about being out of his house and in someone else’s house

Boo enjoys being out of his house

2

Look again at the extract above. How is Boo presented in this extract?

Boo is presented as a confident man

Boo is presented as an angry man

Boo is presented as a nervous man

3

Look again at the extract above. How do we know that Scout is shocked by Boo’s sudden appearance in her house?

Scout uses the word incredible to describe his appearance there

Scout says she was accustomed to his absence

Scout comments on the fact that Boo has been sitting next to her for quite some time

4

What colour hands is Boo described as having?

Sickly white hands

Tanned and brown

Pale and cream

5

Which other character is Miss Maudie most like?

Mrs Merriweather

Atticus Finch

Stephanie Crawford

6

How does Miss Maudie feel about the white people who go to Tom Robinson’s trial?

She feels they are wrongly treating it as a day’s entertainment

She feels they should go to support Atticus

She feels they should go to support Tom Robinson

7

What does Atticus advise Scout to do if she cannot understand someone’s behaviour?

Ignore them

Try not to hit them

Walk around in their skin for a day

8

What word describes Jem as he begins to grow up?

Big headed

Moody

Uncaring

9

Why does Scout prefer to be a tomboy?

She likes climbing trees

She feels women do nothing but gossip and have to be interested in clothes

She wants to be like Jem

10

What word does Atticus use in his speech to describe Tom Robinson? It is a word that would shock everyone at Tom’s trial?

Innocent

Respectable

Lazy