Assess students' understanding of how symbolism and recurring motifs in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird develop central themes—such as innocence, moral courage, empathy, and racial injustice—by asking them to identify key symbols (e.g., the mockingbird, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, the Radley house), analyze specific passages for symbolic meaning, and explain how motifs (childhood perspective, sight vs. blindness, law vs. morality) reinforce thematic development across the novel.