Jeopardy Name that Literary character terms The Trial

Jeopardy Name that Literary character! terms The Trial It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird Miscellaneous Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Category 1 Who is Atticus? What relation does he have to other characters and what is his job?

$100 Answer from Category 1 Atticus is Jem and Scout’s father. He is a lawyer and is defending Tom Robinson in court.

$200 Question from Category 1 Who is Dill? Why is he in Maycomb?

$200 Answer from Category 1 Dill is Jem and Scout’s friend. He comes to Maycomb every summer to stay with family.

$300 Question from Category 3 Who is Miss Maudie?

$300 Answer from Category 1 Miss Maudie lives across the street from the Finch family. She spends a lot of the time with them and often offers advice to Scout and Jem.

$400 Question from Category 1 Who is Dolphus Raymond? What does he do in the book to keep people from asking him questions?

$400 Answer from Category 1 Dolphus Raymond is a wealthy white man who lives in the black community with his black wife. He acts drunk so the citizens of Maycomb will have an explanation for his behavior.

$500 Question from Category 1 Who is Alexandra? Why does she come to Maycomb?

$500 Answer from Category 1 Alexandra is the aunt of Scout and Jem. She comes to Maycomb to help care for the children while Atticus focuses on the case.

$100 Question from Category 2 What is a simile?

$100 Answer from Category 2 A simile compares two things using like or as

$200 Question from Category 2 What is personification?

$200 Answer from Category 2 When you give nonhuman things, human like qualities

$300 Question from Category 2 What is foreshadowing?

$300 Answer from Category 2 When the author gives you hints about what will happen in the future

$400 Question from Category 2 What is irony?

$400 Answer from Category 2 When the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens

$500 Question from Category 2 Name three types of irony

$500 Answer from Category 2 Situational irony- when the opposite of what we expect to happen, happens Verbal irony- when you say one thing but mean another Dramatic irony- when the readers know something other characters don’t

$100 Question from Category 3 Who does Atticus think really beat Mayella?

$100 Answer from Category 3 Bob Ewell

$200 Question from Category 3 What is Mayella’s version of what happened on Novemeber 21?

$200 Answer from Category 3 Mayella asked Tom to bust up the chiffarobe; when she went inside to get him a nickel, he followed her in and raped her

$300 Question from Category 3 What is Tom’s version of what happened on November 21?

$300 Answer from Category 3 Mayella asked Tom to come inside to fix the door, then asked him to get a box down from the chiffarobe, and then jumped on him and begged him to kiss her

$400 Question from Category 3 Why is Tom’s left arm important to his defense?

$400 Answer from Category 3 Since Tom’s left arm is crippled, he could not have left those kinds of injuries on Mayella

$500 Question from Category 3 What indication does Tom give about Mayella and her father in his testimony?

$500 Answer from Category 3 They didn’t get along well and the relationship is possibly abusive

$100 Question from Category 4 What does Scout symbolize in the book?

$100 Answer from Category 4 The innocence of childhood

$200 Question from Category 4 What does Atticus represent in the novel?

$200 Answer from Category 4 The good in the world

$300 Question from Category 4 What does Tom Robinson symbolize?

$300 Answer from Category 4 The part of society that is unequal and treated unfairly

$400 Question from Category 4 What does Boo Radley represent?

$400 Answer from Category 4 The result of religious extremism

$500 Question from Category 4 Who are the two mockingbirds in the book? Why are they mockingbirds?

$500 Answer from Category 4 Tom Robinson and Boo Radley

$100 Question from Category 5 What is the setting of TKAM?

$100 Answer from Category 5 Maycomb, Alabama: The Depression Era

$200 Question from Category 5 What point of view is the story told in?

$200 Answer from Category 5 First person

$300 Question from Category 5 According to Miss Maudie, how did Judge Taylor help Tom?

$300 Answer from Category 5 He let Atticus defend Tom Robinson because he knew that Atticus would do all he could

$400 Question from Category 5 Why does the black community stand for Atticus when he leaves the court room?

$400 Answer from Category 5 They have great respect for him for defending Tom

$500 Question from Category 5 Who did Jem make is snowman look like?

$500 Answer from Category 5 Mr. Avery

Final Jeopardy Where may Harper Lee have gotten the idea for the court case in the book?

Final Jeopardy Answer The Scottsboro Trials in which 9 black men were falsely accused of raping 2 white women. It happened while Lee was a child.