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Practice

Use the review games below to practice.

Let's see if you remember the major events of the section of To Kill a Mockingbird.

1) Describe the courthouse square on the day of the trial.

Answer: The square was extremely crowded because the vast majority of all Maycomb County residents were attending the trial.

2) Who in Maycomb did not go to the trial?

Answer: Miss Maudie

3) Where did the children sit at the trial?

Answer: In the balcony with the black residents of Maycomb County.

4) What was the importance of Mayella's bruises being primarily on the right hand side of her face?

Answer: The bruises could not have been given to her by Tom Robinson.

5) What does Mayella's testimony reveal about her?

Answer: That she is terribly afraid of her father, and she is obviously lying.

6) Why does Mayella get frustrated with Atticus?

Answer: Atticus keeps calling her Miss Mayella out of respect, but she feels he is making fun of her.

7) What does Tom say happened to Mayella?

Answer: He says he came into her house to help her fix a door hinge. She made advances towards him, and her father saw and began yelling at her.