English 9
Quote Quiz
Chapters 18-23
- “What’s so interesting’?” He asked. “You’re left-handed, Mr. Ewell,” said Judge Taylor. Why is this so interesting to the court?
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- “You did all this chopping and work from sheer goodness, boy?” Mr. Gilmer asked. “Yes suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em—“ “You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?” Mr. Gilmer seemed ready to rise to the ceiling. Why was Tom’s remark so offensive to the court?
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- “Some folks don’t—like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with ‘em, I don’t care if they don’t like it. I do say I don’t care if they don’t like it, right enough—but I don’t say the hell with ‘em, see?...It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.” Who’s talking here, and what is he explaining?
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- “One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us…But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president.” Who is speaking, and what is he referring to?
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- “when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson.” What did that mean to Scout, based on what her father told her?
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- “I wish Bob Ewell wouldn’t chew tobacco,” was all Atticus said about it. What had happened to cause Atticus’ comment?
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- “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.” Who said this?
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- “I’ll tell you why (you can’t play with Walter), Because—he—is—trash, that’s why you can’t play with him. I’ll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what. You’re enough of a problem to your father as it is.” Who’s the speaker here, and what’s the context?
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- “I’ve thought about it a lot lately and I’ve got it figured out. There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump. And the Negroes.” Who said this? __________________________________________________
- “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time…it’s because he wants to stay inside. Who’s the speaker here, and why does he/she think Boo wants to remain indoors?
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