1.
What is similar between the men who come to get Emmett Till and the men who come to get Tom Robinson?
A) They both live out of town.
B) They both want only to beat, not kill, the African-American men.
C) They both see the victims or those who protect them as inhuman.
D) They both have little trust in the judicial system
2.
Emmett Till was abducted because
A) he was rude to a white woman.
B) he told his friends of the better conditions for African Americans up North.
C) he challenged Bryant and Milam on the street in public.
D) he raped a white woman.
3.
Aunt Alexandra defines fine folks as
A) folks who do the best with what they are given.
B) folks whose family has owned a piece of property for many generations.
C) rich folks.
D) folks who live in town.
4.
Dill runs away from home because
A) he doesn’t get enough attention from his parents.
B) his parents are too protective.
C) his parents are mean to him.
D) he want to go on an adventure.
5.
Considering the trial of Emmett Till’s murderers, what can the reader predict about Tom Robinson’s trial?
A) the lynch mob will be brought to trial and acquitted.
B) He will not receive a fair trial.
C) Tom will be released just as Bryant and Milam were.
D) Atticus will not adequately defend his client.
6.
According to Crowe’s article on Emmett Till, the decision to acquit Emmett Till’s murderers was responsible for
A) very poor race relations.
B) the atmosphere which led Rosa Parks to spark the famous Montgomery bus boycott.
C) a large-scale outcry for justice leading up to the Civil Rights Movement.
D) all of the above
7.
Emmett Till’s death became national headlines when his mother
A) wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune.
B) confronted the accused murderers.
C) went on television to appeal for justice.
D) decided to leave the casket open for all to see what was done to her son.
8.
Tom Robinson’s and Emmett Till’s situations are similar because
A) they both are accused by white women.
B) they both come from the North and are victimized in the South.
C) they both go to jail though they are innocent.
D) they both are brutally beaten in a racially motivated crime.
9.
Mr. Dolphus Raymond is shunned by white people in Maycomb because
A) he is poor and uneducated
B) he divorced his wife.
C) he lives on the outskirts of town.
D) he lives with and has children with a black woman.
10.
Atticus tries to protect Tom from a potential lynch mob by
A) bringing Sheriff Tate to the jail.
B) making a speech to the town when Tom Robinson is brought to the jail.
C) moving Tom to a federal jail in the next town.
D) sitting in front of the jail house at night.
11.
When Lula sees Scout and Jem at church with Calpurnia, she
A) tells the children they don’t belong there.
B) welcomes them with open arms because their father is defending Tom.
C) invites the children to sit with her in the front.
D) shakes their hands and walks away.
12.
Scout breaks up the lynch mob by
A) crying and clinging to her father.
B) talking to Mr. Cunningham.
C) threatening them if they attempt to lay hands on her father or on Tom.
D) running for the sheriff.|||The name of the book might help.|||Look, I'm not about to give you answers to a book you should have read. Asking strangers to do your homework is not going to give you anything.
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