Question: Who did Harper Lee become childhood friends with?
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: What year did Harper Lee pack up to go live in New York City?
Answer: 1950

Question: What job did Harper Lee start in New York City?
Answer: reservation clerk

Question: Which state did Harper Lee spend her childhood?
Answer: Alabama

Question: What year was Harper Lee born?
Answer: 1926

Question: Who was the famous writer Lee became close friends with?
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: Where did Lee attend college?
Answer: Huntingdon College

Question: Where did Lee attend law school?
Answer: University of Alabama

Question: What publishing company bought To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: J. B. Lippincott

Question: The first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was named what?
Answer: Go Set a Watchman

Question: Who was the editor who got their hands on the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Tay Hohoff

Question: What was the name of  the editor who helped Lee finish her book?
Answer: Therese von Hohoff Torrey

Question: What ailment did Harper Lee's mother suffer from?
Answer: mental illness

Question: What profession did Harper Lee's father hold?
Answer: lawyer

Question: Lee modeled the character Atticus after what laywer?
Answer: Her father

Question: What date did To Kill a Mockingbird begin to circulate?
Answer: July 11, 1960

Question: How long did Lee spend writing the book?
Answer: over two and a half years

Question: What publication's partial reprinting gave the book wide public exposure?
Answer: Reader's Digest Condensed Books

Question: Where is the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Maycomb, Alabama

Question: How many years does the story of To Kill a Mockingbird take place?
Answer: three

Question: How many children does the protagonist, Atticus Finch, have?
Answer: two

Question: Atticus Finch's children make friends with whom during the story?
Answer: Dill

Question: What is the name of the town the story takes place in?
Answer: Maycomb, Alabama

Question: In what historical era does the book take place?
Answer: the Great Depression

Question: Who is the main character of the book?
Answer: Jean Louise Finch (Scout)

Question: What was the name of the woman who was allegedly raped in the book?
Answer: Mayella Ewell

Question: What is the name of Atticus' client in the rape trial?
Answer: Tom Robinson

Question: Who stopped the mob by shaming them?
Answer: Scout, Jem, and Dill

Question: What are the names of Atticus Finch's children in the book?
Answer: Jem and Scout

Question: Where do Jem, Scout, and Dill observe the trial of Tom Robinson?
Answer: balcony

Question: Where do the three children watch the trial?
Answer: the colored balcony

Question: What happens to Tom when he attempts to escape prison?
Answer: shot and killed

Question: Who did Bob Ewell attack during the story?
Answer: Jem and Scout

Question: What event did Jem and Scout attend right before they were attacked at night?
Answer: Halloween pageant

Question: Who saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell?
Answer: Boo Radley

Question: Who attacked Scout and Jem?
Answer: Bob Ewell

Question: Who rescued Scout and Jem?
Answer: Boo Radley

Question: What was the name of the police officer who discovered Bob Ewell's body?
Answer: Sheriff Tate

Question: According to Sheriff Tate's story, how did Ewell die?
Answer: fell on his own knife

Question: Harper Lee has stated that To Kill a Mockingbird is not what genre of book?
Answer: autobiography

Question: What year did Harper Lee's father represent two black men accused of murder?
Answer: 1919

Question: At what age did Harper Lee's mother die?
Answer: 25

Question: What titles did Lee's father maintain at the local newspaper?
Answer: editor and publisher

Question: Where did Truman Capote live in relation to Lee?
Answer: next door

Question: What year did Lee and Capote go to Kansas together?
Answer: 1960

Question: Murders were the base for which story that Capote wrote?
Answer: In Cold Blood

Question: Who was the character Dill modeled after?
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: What did Lee and Capote write their childhood stories on?
Answer: old Underwood typewriter

Question: What term did Capote use to describe Lee and himself?
Answer: apart people

Question: At what age was Lee when a white woman accused a black guy of rape?
Answer: 10

Question: What was the name of the black man who was accused of rape in Lee's town when she was 10?
Answer: Walter Lett

Question: What was the name of the black teenager that Tom Robinson was supposedly based on?
Answer: Emmett Till

Question: Emmett Till's death sparked which political movement in the '50s?
Answer: Civil Rights Movement

Question: What purpose did Tom Robinson's trial serve in the book?
Answer: display Southern prejudices

Question: Who's death was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement?
Answer: Emmett Till

Question: What two forms of humor are most found in To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Satire and irony

Question:  Lee uses which writing styles to express humor in a tragic story?
Answer: parody, satire, and irony

Question: Where does Jem trap a fellow peer of school in the story?
Answer: church basement

Question: What is the name of the maid who works in the Finch's household?
Answer: Calpurnia

Question: How does Scout respond to the audience?
Answer: distracted and embarrassed

Question: What saves Scout's life?
Answer: ham costume

Question: What genre of book is To Kill a Mockingbird typically called?
Answer: Southern Gothic and coming-of-age or Bildungsroman novel

Question: What term did Lee use to describe the town's courthouse?
Answer: Gothic

Question: Who does Scout revere above everyone else?
Answer: Atticus

Question: What was the name of the neighbor that Jem speaks too after Tom Robinson's trial?
Answer: Miss Maudie

Question: What des Jem struggle to understand?
Answer: separations of race and class

Question: When did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place?
Answer: 1955

Question: Many reviewers consider the second part of the book to be about what issue?
Answer: race relations

Question: The main jurors in Tom Robinson's trial were all which race?
Answer: white

Question: How did Tom Robinson die in the novel?
Answer: shot seventeen times

Question: At the time of the novel's setting, what punishment was often received by black males for percieved sexual contact with a white woman?
Answer: death

Question: Who comprised Tom's jury?
Answer: poor white farmers

Question: How many times was Tom shot?
Answer: seventeen

Question: Atticus is tasked with killing what animal in the novel?
Answer: a rabid dog

Question: What is Atticus shooting the rabid dog symbolic of?
Answer: fight against the town's racism

Question: Who does the cooking at the Finch's house?
Answer: Calpurnia

Question: Who is Atticus Finch's sibling?
Answer: Aunt Alexandra

Question: Who does Scout Tease and humiliate at their house?
Answer: Walter Cunningham

Question: Which author did Lee aspire to be like?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: Both authors valued what over social standing?
Answer: individual worth

Question: Are the Ewell's considered rich or poor?
Answer: poor

Question: What two factors did Lee demonstrate intensified prejudice?
Answer: gender and class

Question: The children's non-judgmental attitude gave them a greater understanding of what?
Answer: people's motives and behavior

Question: Mrs. Dubose suffers from an addiction to what?
Answer: morphine

Question: Who is the moral center of the novel?
Answer: Atticus

Question: The novel explores various forms of what trait?
Answer: courage

Question: Who has written the only biography of Harper Lee?
Answer: Charles Shields

Question: Who wrote the only book length- biography of Harper Lee?
Answer: Charles Shields

Question: According to Shields, which of the books lessons are fundamental and universal?
Answer: human dignity and respect for others