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28%
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What percentage of the New York City cab fleet was clean diesel or hybrid in 2010?
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80%
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What percent reduction of greenhouse gases does Mayor de Blasio want to see by 2050?
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Hearst Tower
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What is the name of a notable green office building in New York?
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Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency
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What legal case sought to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to regular greenhouse gases?
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6
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How long is Newtown Creek in kilometers?
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110,000
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How many cubic meters of oil is supposed to be in Newtown Creek?
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the Greenpoint oil spill
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What notable accidental fossil fuel discharge occurred at Newtown Creek?
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mayor-council
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What type of government does New York City have?
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1898
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In what year did New York City adopt the mayor-council form of government?
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Second
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What numbered department of the Supreme Court is located in Brooklyn?
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Manhattan
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In what borough is the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court located?
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executive
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What branch of government are the administrative courts a part of?
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Manhattan
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In what borough is the main courthouse of the District Court for the Southern District of New York located?
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the Eastern District of New York
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What federal district court has its main courthouse in Brooklyn?
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Foley Square
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What square is home to the US Court of International Trade?
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the District Court for the Eastern District of New York
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What federal district court has jurisdiction over Staten Island?
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Manhattan
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In what borough is the New York City Hall found?
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Manhattan
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Four-fifths of the ZIP codes that provide the highest amount of political contributions in the United States are located in what borough?
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10021
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What ZIP code was responsible for the greatest amount of contributions in the 2004 presidential election for both candidates?
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83
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How much money in cents does New York City receive for every dollar paid in federal taxes?
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$11 billion
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How much more money does the city give to the state of New York annually than it receives?
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$11.4 billion
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Each year, how much more money does New York City give to the federal government than it gets back?
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New York City Global Partners
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What is the new name of the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc.?
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2006
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In what year did the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc. have its name changed?
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1960
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When did To Kill a Mockingbird first get circulated?
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Pulitzer Prize
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What prize did To Kill a Mockingbird win?
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Harper Lee
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Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Harper Lee
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Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
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1960
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What year was To Kill a Mockingbird first published?
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her family and neighbors
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Whom did Lee base the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird on?
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United States
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To Kill a Mockingbird is widely read in which countries schools?
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Southern Gothic novel
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What genre of book is To Kill a Mockingbird?
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racial injustice and the destruction of innocence
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Some of the central themes of the book are what exactly?
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Deep South
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Which region of America was the novel set in?
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racial epithets
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What has caused the use of the novel in classrooms to be challenged?
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Mary McDonough Murphy
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Who gathered impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird from other authors and famous people?
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2006
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In which year did British librarians rank To Kill a Mockingbird ahead of the Bible?
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1962
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When was To Kill a Mockingbird made into a movie?
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1990
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When did a play for the book begin to perform every year in Monroeville, Alabama?
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Robert Mulligan
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Who was the director of the adaptation of the movie?
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Bible
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British librarians in 2006 ranked the book ahead of what famous volume?
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Horton Foote
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Who wrote the screenplay for the 1962 film?
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Robert Mulligan
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Who directed the 1962 film?
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Monroeville, Alabama
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What is Harper Lee's hometown?
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February 2016
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When did Harper Lee pass away?
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Go Set a Watchman
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What is the only other work Harper Lee published?
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Go Set a Watchman
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What is the name of Lee's second published work?
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July 14, 2015
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When was the second book published?
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February 2016
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When did Lee die?
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Truman Capote
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Who did Harper Lee become childhood friends with?
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1950
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What year did Harper Lee pack up to go live in New York City?
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reservation clerk
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What job did Harper Lee start in New York City?
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Alabama
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Which state did Harper Lee spend her childhood?
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1926
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What year was Harper Lee born?
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Truman Capote
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Who was the famous writer Lee became close friends with?
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Huntingdon College
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Where did Lee attend college?
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University of Alabama
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Where did Lee attend law school?
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J. B. Lippincott
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What publishing company bought To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Go Set a Watchman
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The first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was named what?
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Tay Hohoff
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Who was the editor who got their hands on the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Therese von Hohoff Torrey
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What was the name of the editor who helped Lee finish her book?
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mental illness
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What ailment did Harper Lee's mother suffer from?
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lawyer
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What profession did Harper Lee's father hold?
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Her father
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Lee modeled the character Atticus after what laywer?
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July 11, 1960
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What date did To Kill a Mockingbird begin to circulate?
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over two and a half years
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How long did Lee spend writing the book?
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books
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What publication's partial reprinting gave the book wide public exposure?
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Maycomb, Alabama
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Where is the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird?
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three
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How many years does the story of To Kill a Mockingbird take place?
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two
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How many children does the protagonist, Atticus Finch, have?
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Dill
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Atticus Finch's children make friends with whom during the story?
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Maycomb, Alabama
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What is the name of the town the story takes place in?
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the Great Depression
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In what historical era does the book take place?
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Jean Louise Finch (Scout)
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Who is the main character of the book?
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Mayella Ewell
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What was the name of the woman who was allegedly raped in the book?
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Tom Robinson
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What is the name of Atticus' client in the rape trial?
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Scout, Jem, and Dill
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Who stopped the mob by shaming them?
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Jem and Scout
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What are the names of Atticus Finch's children in the book?
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balcony
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Where do Jem, Scout, and Dill observe the trial of Tom Robinson?
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the colored balcony
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Where do the three children watch the trial?
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shot and killed
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What happens to Tom when he attempts to escape prison?
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Jem and Scout
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Who did Bob Ewell attack during the story?
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Halloween pageant
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What event did Jem and Scout attend right before they were attacked at night?
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Boo Radley
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Who saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell?
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Bob Ewell
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Who attacked Scout and Jem?
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Boo Radley
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Who rescued Scout and Jem?
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Sheriff Tate
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What was the name of the police officer who discovered Bob Ewell's body?
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fell on his own knife
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According to Sheriff Tate's story, how did Ewell die?
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autobiography
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Harper Lee has stated that To Kill a Mockingbird is not what genre of book?
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1919
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What year did Harper Lee's father represent two black men accused of murder?
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25
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At what age did Harper Lee's mother die?
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editor and publisher
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What titles did Lee's father maintain at the local newspaper?
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next door
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Where did Truman Capote live in relation to Lee?
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1960
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What year did Lee and Capote go to Kansas together?
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In Cold Blood
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Murders were the base for which story that Capote wrote?
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Truman Capote
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Who was the character Dill modeled after?
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old Underwood typewriter
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What did Lee and Capote write their childhood stories on?
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apart people
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What term did Capote use to describe Lee and himself?
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10
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At what age was Lee when a white woman accused a black guy of rape?
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Walter Lett
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What was the name of the black man who was accused of rape in Lee's town when she was 10?
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