To Kill a Mockingbird: Background and
Characters
Scout - ANSWER-Whose real name is Jean Louise Finch?
Jem - ANSWER-Who cried over the guilty verdict?
Atticus - ANSWER-Who was also known as "Ol' One Shot"?
Calpurnia - ANSWER-Who takes Scout and Jem to her church?
Miss Maudie - ANSWER-Who lost her home to a fire?
Aunt Alexandra - ANSWER-Who disapproved of the way Scout was being raised?
Uncle Jack - ANSWER-Who punished Scout for cursing?
Dill - ANSWER-Who is Scout's fiancé?
Boo Radley - ANSWER-Who saved Scout and Jem from the attack?
Nathan Radley - ANSWER-Who is Arthur Radley's brother?
Miss Stephanie - ANSWER-Who is the nosy gossipy neighbor?
Walter Cunningham, Jr. - ANSWER-Who poured syrup all over his food?
Tom Robinson - ANSWER-Who has a crippled arm from a cotton gin accident?
Miss Caroline - ANSWER-Who is Scout's first grade teacher?
Link Deas - ANSWER-Who gave Helen Robinson a job?
Mayella Ewell - ANSWER-Who lied about being raped?
Mrs. Dubose - ANSWER-Who was a morphine addict?
Dolphus Raymond - ANSWER-Who pretends to be drunk, but really drinks Coke?
Bob Ewell - ANSWER-Who writes left-handed?
Heck Tate - ANSWER-Who is the Sheriff of Maycomb?
Atticus - ANSWER-- the lawyer defending Tom Robinson
, - Scout and Jem's single father
- tells Scout they will keep reading at night if she keeps going to school
Scout - ANSWER-Jean Louise Finch
- a tomboy who likes to fight
Uncle Jack Finch - ANSWER-Atticus' brother who is a doctor
- spanks Scout for punching Francis and cussing but apologizes later when he finds out
why she did it
Aunt Alexandra - ANSWER-Atticus' sister
- comes to live with the Finches to give Scout a female role model
- thinks Scout should think and act like a girl
- won't let Scout visit Cal's house
- thinks Atticus should let Cal go
Francis - ANSWER-- the Finches' cousin whom Scout gets into a fight with when he
calls Atticus names
Calpurnia - ANSWER-- the Finches' cook who is also like a second mother to the
children
- African American woman who takes them to her church
Tom Robinson - ANSWER-- Black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell
- he is unable to use his left hand which would have made it quite difficult for him to
attack Mayella the way she says he did
- is shot 17 times and killed by prison guards when he tries to escape
Reverend Sykes - ANSWER-- preacher at First Purchase who sits with the kids at the
trial and locks his congregation in the church until they take up enough money for the
Robinson family
- the children sit with him during the trial
Dill - ANSWER-- Charles Baker Harris
- Scout's "fiance" who is passed around from family member to family member
throughout the year
- tells all sorts of crazy stories about who his daddy is
- wants to be a clown when he grows up
- Scout finds him under her bed
Heck Tate - ANSWER-- sheriff in Maycomb
- testifies that they did NOT call a doctor for Mayella
- tells Atticus that "Bob Ewell fell on his knife" because he believes it would be wrong to
drag Boo out into the limelight for killing Bob Ewell
Characters
Scout - ANSWER-Whose real name is Jean Louise Finch?
Jem - ANSWER-Who cried over the guilty verdict?
Atticus - ANSWER-Who was also known as "Ol' One Shot"?
Calpurnia - ANSWER-Who takes Scout and Jem to her church?
Miss Maudie - ANSWER-Who lost her home to a fire?
Aunt Alexandra - ANSWER-Who disapproved of the way Scout was being raised?
Uncle Jack - ANSWER-Who punished Scout for cursing?
Dill - ANSWER-Who is Scout's fiancé?
Boo Radley - ANSWER-Who saved Scout and Jem from the attack?
Nathan Radley - ANSWER-Who is Arthur Radley's brother?
Miss Stephanie - ANSWER-Who is the nosy gossipy neighbor?
Walter Cunningham, Jr. - ANSWER-Who poured syrup all over his food?
Tom Robinson - ANSWER-Who has a crippled arm from a cotton gin accident?
Miss Caroline - ANSWER-Who is Scout's first grade teacher?
Link Deas - ANSWER-Who gave Helen Robinson a job?
Mayella Ewell - ANSWER-Who lied about being raped?
Mrs. Dubose - ANSWER-Who was a morphine addict?
Dolphus Raymond - ANSWER-Who pretends to be drunk, but really drinks Coke?
Bob Ewell - ANSWER-Who writes left-handed?
Heck Tate - ANSWER-Who is the Sheriff of Maycomb?
Atticus - ANSWER-- the lawyer defending Tom Robinson
, - Scout and Jem's single father
- tells Scout they will keep reading at night if she keeps going to school
Scout - ANSWER-Jean Louise Finch
- a tomboy who likes to fight
Uncle Jack Finch - ANSWER-Atticus' brother who is a doctor
- spanks Scout for punching Francis and cussing but apologizes later when he finds out
why she did it
Aunt Alexandra - ANSWER-Atticus' sister
- comes to live with the Finches to give Scout a female role model
- thinks Scout should think and act like a girl
- won't let Scout visit Cal's house
- thinks Atticus should let Cal go
Francis - ANSWER-- the Finches' cousin whom Scout gets into a fight with when he
calls Atticus names
Calpurnia - ANSWER-- the Finches' cook who is also like a second mother to the
children
- African American woman who takes them to her church
Tom Robinson - ANSWER-- Black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell
- he is unable to use his left hand which would have made it quite difficult for him to
attack Mayella the way she says he did
- is shot 17 times and killed by prison guards when he tries to escape
Reverend Sykes - ANSWER-- preacher at First Purchase who sits with the kids at the
trial and locks his congregation in the church until they take up enough money for the
Robinson family
- the children sit with him during the trial
Dill - ANSWER-- Charles Baker Harris
- Scout's "fiance" who is passed around from family member to family member
throughout the year
- tells all sorts of crazy stories about who his daddy is
- wants to be a clown when he grows up
- Scout finds him under her bed
Heck Tate - ANSWER-- sheriff in Maycomb
- testifies that they did NOT call a doctor for Mayella
- tells Atticus that "Bob Ewell fell on his knife" because he believes it would be wrong to
drag Boo out into the limelight for killing Bob Ewell
