Question

In Chapter 15 in To Kill A Mockingbird, which quote best describes how Scout feels standing in the crowd of men? Question 20 options: a) “I was slowly drying up, wondering what idiocy I had committed.” b) “I sought once more for a familiar face, and at the center of the semi-circle I found one.” c) Mr. Cunningham was moved to a faint nod. He did know me after all.” d) “As they had come in ones and twos the men shuffled back to their ramshackle cars.”

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) I was slowly drying up wondering what kind of Idiocy I had committed.

In chapter 15 in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the quote that best describes how Scout feels standing in the crowd of men is “I was slowly drying up wondering what kind of Idiocy I had committed.”

In chapter 15 of “To Kill a Mocking Bird”, the context of the quote is: “Well, Atticus. I was just saying to Mr. Cunninham that entailments are bad and all that. But you said not to worry. It take a long time sometimes…that you all ride it out together… I was slowly drying up wondering what kind of Idiocy I had committed. Entailments seemed all right enough for living room talks.”  

In 1960, Harper Lee published the famous novel “To Kill a Mocking Bird” that won a Pulitzer prize. Since then, the novel is considered one of the best American works in literature.