praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Scholars argue that Lee's approach to class and race was more complex "than ascribing racial prejudice primarily to 'poor white trash' ... Lee demonstrates how issues of gender and class intensify prejudice, silence the voices that might challenge the existing order, and greatly complicate many Americans' conception of the causes of racism and segregation." Lee's use of the middle-class narrative voice is a literary device that allows an intimacy with the reader, regardless of class or cultural background, and fosters a sense of nostalgia. Sharing Scout and Jem's perspective, the reader is allowed to engage in relationships with the conservative antebellum Mrs. Dubose; the lower-class Ewells, and the Cunninghams who are equally poor but behave in vastly different ways; the wealthy but ostracized Mr. Dolphus Raymond; and Calpurnia and other members of the black community. The children internalize Atticus' admonition not to judge someone until they have walked around in that person's skin, gaining a greater understanding of people's motives and behavior.

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
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: The novel has been noted for its poignant exploration of different forms of courage. Scout's impulsive inclination to fight students who insult Atticus reflects her attempt to stand up for him and defend him. Atticus is the moral center of the novel, however, and he teaches Jem one of the most significant lessons of courage. In a statement that foreshadows Atticus' motivation for defending Tom Robinson and describes Mrs. Dubose, who is determined to break herself of a morphine addiction, Atticus tells Jem that courage is "when you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what".

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
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Charles Shields, who has written the only book-length biography of Harper Lee to date, offers the reason for the novel's enduring popularity and impact is that "its lessons of human dignity and respect for others remain fundamental and universal". Atticus' lesson to Scout that "you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it" exemplifies his compassion. She ponders the comment when listening to Mayella Ewell's testimony. When Mayella reacts with confusion to Atticus' question if she has any friends, Scout offers that she must be lonelier than Boo Radley. Having walked Boo home after he saves their lives, Scout stands on the Radley porch and considers the events of the previous three years from Boo's perspective. One writer remarks, "... [w]hile the novel concerns tragedy and injustice, heartache and loss, it also carries with it a strong sense [of] courage, compassion, and an awareness of history to be better human beings."

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

question: Who does Scout think could be lonelier than Boo Radley? 

answer: Mayella Ewell
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Just as Lee explores Jem's development in coming to grips with a racist and unjust society, Scout realizes what being female means, and several female characters influence her development. Scout's primary identification with her father and older brother allows her to describe the variety and depth of female characters in the novel both as one of them and as an outsider. Scout's primary female models are Calpurnia and her neighbor Miss Maudie, both of whom are strong willed, independent, and protective. Mayella Ewell also has an influence; Scout watches her destroy an innocent man in order to hide her desire for him. The female characters who comment the most on Scout's lack of willingness to adhere to a more feminine role are also those who promote the most racist and classist points of view. For example, Mrs. Dubose chastises Scout for not wearing a dress and camisole, and indicates she is ruining the family name by not doing so, in addition to insulting Atticus' intentions to defend Tom Robinson. By balancing the masculine influences of Atticus and Jem with the feminine influences of Calpurnia and Miss Maudie, one scholar writes, "Lee gradually demonstrates that Scout is becoming a feminist in the South, for with the use of first-person narration, she indicates that Scout/ Jean Louise still maintains the ambivalence about being a Southern lady she possessed as a child."

question: Who are the main female role models for Scout during the story? 

answer: Calpurnia and Miss Maudie

question: Who are Scout's two primary female models? 

answer: Calpurnia and Miss Maudie

question: Who chastis Scout for the way she dresse and accuses her of ruining her family name? 

answer: Mrs. Dubose

question: Tomboy Scout grows up tto become what? 

answer: feminist
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Absent mothers and abusive fathers are another theme in the novel. Scout and Jem's mother died before Scout could remember her, Mayella's mother is dead, and Mrs. Radley is silent about Boo's confinement to the house. Apart from Atticus, the fathers described are abusers. Bob Ewell, it is hinted, molested his daughter, and Mr. Radley imprisons his son in his house until Boo is remembered only as a phantom. Bob Ewell and Mr. Radley represent a form of masculinity that Atticus does not, and the novel suggests that such men as well as the traditionally feminine hypocrites at the Missionary Society can lead society astray. Atticus stands apart as a unique model of masculinity; as one scholar explains: "It is the job of real men who embody the traditional masculine qualities of heroic individualism, bravery, and an unshrinking knowledge of and dedication to social justice and morality, to set the society straight."

question: In the book, which character was expected of molesting their child? 

answer: Bob Ewell

question: Who was the only non-abusive father mentioned? 

answer: Atticus
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Allusions to legal issues in To Kill a Mockingbird, particularly in scenes outside of the courtroom, has drawn the attention from legal scholars. Claudia Durst Johnson writes that "a greater volume of critical readings has been amassed by two legal scholars in law journals than by all the literary scholars in literary journals". The opening quote by the 19th-century essayist Charles Lamb reads: "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." Johnson notes that even in Scout and Jem's childhood world, compromises and treaties are struck with each other by spitting on one's palm and laws are discussed by Atticus and his children: is it right that Bob Ewell hunts and traps out of season? Many social codes are broken by people in symbolic courtrooms: Mr. Dolphus Raymond has been exiled by society for taking a black woman as his common-law wife and having interracial children; Mayella Ewell is beaten by her father in punishment for kissing Tom Robinson; by being turned into a non-person, Boo Radley receives a punishment far greater than any court could have given him. Scout repeatedly breaks codes and laws and reacts to her punishment for them. For example, she refuses to wear frilly clothes, saying that Aunt Alexandra's "fanatical" attempts to place her in them made her feel "a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on [her]". Johnson states, "[t]he novel is a study of how Jem and Scout begin to perceive the complexity of social codes and how the configuration of relationships dictated by or set off by those codes fails or nurtures the inhabitants of (their) small worlds."

question: Which character is chastised in the book for marrying a black woman? 

answer: Dolphus Raymond

question: Who does Charles Lamb speculate were once children? 

answer: Lawyers

question: What is another name for Scout's pink cotton penitentiary? 

answer: frilly clothes
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Songbirds and their associated symbolism appear throughout the novel. The family's last name of Finch also shares Lee's mother's maiden name. The titular mockingbird is a key motif of this theme, which first appears when Atticus, having given his children air-rifles for Christmas, allows their Uncle Jack to teach them to shoot. Atticus warns them that, although they can "shoot all the bluejays they want", they must remember that "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". Confused, Scout approaches her neighbor Miss Maudie, who explains that mockingbirds never harm other living creatures. She points out that mockingbirds simply provide pleasure with their songs, saying, "They don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us." Writer Edwin Bruell summarized the symbolism when he wrote in 1964, "'To kill a mockingbird' is to kill that which is innocent and harmless—like Tom Robinson." Scholars have noted that Lee often returns to the mockingbird theme when trying to make a moral point.

question: Which animal serves as a symbol throughout the book? 

answer: Songbirds

question: Harper Lee's mother's maiden name was what? 

answer: Finch

question: Which bird does Atticus Finch say is a "sin to kill?" 

answer: mockingbird

question: According to Atticus, which bird is it a sin to shoot? 

answer: mockingbird

question: According to Miss Maudie, which bird is never harmful? 

answer: mockingbird

question: Symbolically, killing a mockingbird is killing what according to Edwin Bruell? 

answer: that which is innocent and harmless
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Despite her editors' warnings that the book might not sell well, it quickly became a sensation, bringing acclaim to Lee in literary circles, in her hometown of Monroeville, and throughout Alabama. The book went through numerous subsequent printings and became widely available through its inclusion in the Book of the Month Club and editions released by Reader's Digest Condensed Books.

question: Reader's Digest included To Kill a Mockingbird in what program of theirs? 

answer: Book of the Month Club

question: The book's availablity increased through inclusion in what book service? 

answer: Book of the Month Club
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: One year after its publication To Kill a Mockingbird had been translated into ten languages. In the years since, it has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. The novel has never been out of print in hardcover or paperback, and has become part of the standard literature curriculum. A 2008 survey of secondary books read by students between grades 9–12 in the U.S. indicates the novel is the most widely read book in these grades. A 1991 survey by the Book of the Month Club and the Library of Congress Center for the Book found that To Kill a Mockingbird was rated behind only the Bible in books that are "most often cited as making a difference".[note 1] It is considered by some to be the Great American Novel.

question: After one year when To Kill a Mockingbird first came out, how many languages has it been printed in? 

answer: ten

question: Up til today, how many languages has To Kill a Mockingbird been printed in? 

answer: 40

question: How many copies has To Kill a Mockingbird sold since it first came out? 

answer: 30 million

question: How many copies of the book have been sold? 

answer: more than 30 million

question: How many languages has the book been translated into? 

answer: more than 40
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Many writers compare their perceptions of To Kill a Mockingbird as adults with when they first read it as children. Mary McDonagh Murphy interviewed celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Rosanne Cash, Tom Brokaw, and Harper's sister Alice Lee, who read the novel and compiled their impressions of it as children and adults into a book titled Scout, Atticus, and Boo.

question: Public figure's impressions of the novel were formed into a book called what? 

answer: Scout, Atticus, and Boo

question: Who was Harper Lee's sister? 

answer: Alice Lee

question: What book compiled Adults'  impressions and their impressions as children about the novel? 

answer: Scout, Atticus, and Boo
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: One of the most significant impacts To Kill a Mockingbird has had is Atticus Finch's model of integrity for the legal profession. As scholar Alice Petry explains, "Atticus has become something of a folk hero in legal circles and is treated almost as if he were an actual person." Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center cites Atticus Finch as the reason he became a lawyer, and Richard Matsch, the federal judge who presided over the Timothy McVeigh trial, counts Atticus as a major judicial influence. One law professor at the University of Notre Dame stated that the most influential textbook he taught from was To Kill a Mockingbird, and an article in the Michigan Law Review claims, "No real-life lawyer has done more for the self-image or public perception of the legal profession," before questioning whether, "Atticus Finch is a paragon of honor or an especially slick hired gun".

question: Atticus Finch's integrity has become a model for which job? 

answer: lawyer

question: Atticus Finch is a model of what for legal professionals? 

answer: integrity
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: In 1992, an Alabama editorial called for the death of Atticus, saying that as liberal as Atticus was, he still worked within a system of institutionalized racism and sexism and should not be revered. The editorial sparked a flurry of responses from attorneys who entered the profession because of him and esteemed him as a hero. Critics of Atticus maintain he is morally ambiguous and does not use his legal skills to challenge the racist status quo in Maycomb. However, in 1997, the Alabama State Bar erected a monument to Atticus in Monroeville, marking his existence as the "first commemorative milestone in the state's judicial history". In 2008, Lee herself received an honorary special membership to the Alabama State Bar for creating Atticus who "has become the personification of the exemplary lawyer in serving the legal needs of the poor".

question: What year was a statue of Atticus build in Alabama? 

answer: 1997

question: Harper Lee was given a membership to what in 2008? 

answer: Alabama State Bar

question: What did the Alabama State Bar bestow on Lee in 2008? 

answer: honorary special membership
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: To Kill a Mockingbird has been a source of significant controversy since its being the subject of classroom study as early as 1963. The book's racial slurs, profanity, and frank discussion of rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms across the United States. The American Library Association reported that To Kill a Mockingbird was number 21 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 2000–2009.

question: To Kill a Mockingbird was first studied in American schools in what year? 

answer: 1963

question: The American Library Associated ranked To Kill a Mockingbird where on its most frequently challenged books of 2000-2009? 

answer: 21

question: In what year did the book become a subject of classroom study? 

answer: 1963

question: According to The American Library Association, what rank did the book have among the most frequently challenged books from 2000 to 2009? 

answer: 21
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: One of the first incidents of the book being challenged was in Hanover, Virginia, in 1966: a parent protested that the use of rape as a plot device was immoral. Johnson cites examples of letters to local newspapers, which ranged from amusement to fury; those letters expressing the most outrage, however, complained about Mayella Ewell's attraction to Tom Robinson over the depictions of rape. Upon learning the school administrators were holding hearings to decide the book's appropriateness for the classroom, Harper Lee sent $10 to The Richmond News Leader suggesting it to be used toward the enrollment of "the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice". The National Education Association in 1968 placed the novel second on a list of books receiving the most complaints from private organizations—after Little Black Sambo.

question: When was the first major controversy that surfaced from the book? 

answer: 1966

question: What event in the novel was heavily criticized for being a plot device? 

answer: rape

question: In letters to local newspapers, what subplot in the book received the most complaints? 

answer: Mayella Ewell's attraction to Tom Robinson

question: According to the National Education Association, what was the only book to receive more complaints in 1968? 

answer: Little Black Sambo
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: The novel is cited as a factor in the success of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, however, in that it "arrived at the right moment to help the South and the nation grapple with the racial tensions (of) the accelerating civil rights movement". Its publication is so closely associated with the Civil Rights Movement that many studies of the book and biographies of Harper Lee include descriptions of important moments in the movement, despite the fact that she had no direct involvement in any of them. Civil Rights leader Andrew Young comments that part of the book's effectiveness is that it "inspires hope in the midst of chaos and confusion" and by using racial epithets portrays the reality of the times in which it was set. Young views the novel as "an act of humanity" in showing the possibility of people rising above their prejudices. Alabama author Mark Childress compares it to the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that is popularly implicated in starting the U.S. Civil War. Childress states the novel "gives white Southerners a way to understand the racism that they've been brought up with and to find another way. And most white people in the South were good people. Most white people in the South were not throwing bombs and causing havoc ... I think the book really helped them come to understand what was wrong with the system in the way that any number of treatises could never do, because it was popular art, because it was told from a child's point of view."

question: What movement in the '60s did the novel help spark? 

answer: civil rights movement

question: Which book was credited with sparking the US Civil War? 

answer: Uncle Tom's Cabin

question: What other book did Mark Childress compare it to? 

answer: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: Lee's childhood friend, author Truman Capote, wrote on the dust jacket of the first edition, "Someone rare has written this very fine first novel: a writer with the liveliest sense of life, and the warmest, most authentic sense of humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable." This comment has been construed to suggest that Capote wrote the book or edited it heavily. In 2003, a Tuscaloosa newspaper quoted Capote's biological father, Archulus Persons, as claiming that Capote had written "almost all" of the book. In 2006, a Capote letter was donated to Monroeville's literary heritage museum; in a letter to a neighbor in Monroeville in 1959, Capote mentioned that Lee was writing a book that was to be published soon. Extensive notes between Lee and her editor at Lippincott also refute the rumor of Capote's authorship. Lee's older sister, Alice, responded to the rumor, saying: "That's the biggest lie ever told."

question: Who was Truman Capote's father? 

answer: Archulus Persons

question: Who was speculated to have wrote the book instead of Harper Lee? 

answer: Truman Capote

question: What was the name of Harper Lee's sister? 

answer: Alice

question: Who was rumored to have written the book instead of Lee? 

answer: Truman Capote

question: Lee's notes to whom help disclaim this rumor? 

answer: her editor
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: During the years immediately following the novel's publication, Harper Lee enjoyed the attention its popularity garnered her, granting interviews, visiting schools, and attending events honoring the book. In 1961, when To Kill a Mockingbird was in its 41st week on the bestseller list, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, stunning Lee. It also won the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in the same year, and the Paperback of the Year award from Bestsellers magazine in 1962. Starting in 1964, Lee began to turn down interviews, complaining that the questions were monotonous, and grew concerned that attention she received bordered on the kind of publicity celebrities sought. Since the, she declined talking with reporters about the book. She also steadfastly refused to provide an introduction, writing in 1995: "Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. The only good thing about Introductions is that in some cases they delay the dose to come. Mockingbird still says what it has to say; it has managed to survive the years without preamble."

question: Which year did To Kill a Mockingbird win the Pulitzer Prize? 

answer: 1961

question: How many weeks did To Kill a Mockingbird remain on the bestsellers list when it won the Pulitzer Prize? 

answer: 41

question: Paperback of the Year award from Bestsellers magazine was awarded when? 

answer: 1962

question: When did Harper Lee begin refusing interviews and questions about the book? 

answer: 1964

question: What major award did the book receive in 1961? 

answer: the Pulitzer Prize

question: In what year did Lee stop giving interviews about the book? 

answer: 1964
Title: To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Context: In 2001, Lee was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor. In the same year, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley initiated a reading program throughout the city's libraries, and chose his favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird, as the first title of the One City, One Book program. Lee declared that "there is no greater honor the novel could receive". By 2004, the novel had been chosen by 25 communities for variations of the citywide reading program, more than any other novel. David Kipen of the National Endowment of the Arts, who supervised The Big Read, states "people just seem to connect with it. It dredges up things in their own lives, their interactions across racial lines, legal encounters, and childhood. It's just this skeleton key to so many different parts of people's lives, and they cherish it."

question: Which year was Lee awarded an induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor? 

answer: 2001

question: In 2004, the novel as been picked by how many communities for citywide reading programs more than any other book? 

answer: 25

question: In 2001, what city's mayor picked To Kill a Mockingbird as their favorite book? 

answer: Chicago

question: Which city's mayor initiated a reading program with the book? 

answer: Chicago

question: By 2004, how many communities were using the book as part of their reading programs? 

answer: 25