Chapters 1-3 Questions:

Due: 5/12 (as you get on the bus)

1) List three important events from this section.

2) List details that establish the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird.

3) Who are Scout and Jem’ parents.

4) List at least three details which describe Dill.

5) Why does Scout describe Walter Cunningham’s life situation to

her teacher?

6) Why do people of Maycomb dislike the Radleys?

7) Describe the social status of the following families: Flinchs,

Cunninghams, Ewells.

8) Tell how Dill and Scout’s lives are different from one another.

Include details.

Chapter 3-5 Questions:

Please be sure to fully answer the questions asked and give information to back-up your answers. Include parenthetical citations in each answer except 2 and 6.

1) What is “hot steam?”

2) What is the definition of “provincialism?”

3) What superstitions do the children have in connection with the Radley house?

4) Why do the children make Boo's story into a game?

5) What do they do in this game? Do you think the game is an accurate version of what happens in the Radleys' home?

6) What might be the cause of the laughter from inside the house?

7) Describe Miss Maudie Atkinson? How typical is she of Maycomb's women? What do the children think of her?

8) What does Miss Maudie tell Scout about Boo? How does this compare with what Scout already believes?

9) What reasons does Atticus give for the children not to play the Boo Radley game? Do you think he is right? Why?

10) Why do you think Scout claims that “Dill could tell the biggest ones ” (lies) she ever heard. Why might Dill have told such lies?

Chapter 12- 16 questions:

-Please be sure to fully answer the questions asked and give information to back-up your answers.

-Include parenthetical citations in each answer.

Chapter 12

1) What new things does Scout learn during her visit to First Purchase Church about how the black people live?

2) What does Scout learn from Calpurnia's account of Zeebo's education?

3) Explain why Calpurnia speaks differently in the Finch household, and among her neighbors at church.

Chapter 13

4) Why does Aunt Alexandra come to stay with Atticus and his family? What is she like?

5) Read the first two things Alexandra says when she comes to the Finch house. Are these typical of her or not?

6) How does Aunt Alexandra involve herself in Maycomb's social life?

Chapter 14

7) Why does Alexandra think Atticus should dismiss Calpurnia? How does Atticus respond to the suggestion?

8) Why is Scout pleased when Jem fights her back? Why is she less pleased when he tells Atticus about Dill?

9) What do we learn from Dill's account of his running away?

Chapter 15

10) What is the “nightmare” that now descends upon the children?

11) What was (and is) the Ku Klux Klan? What do you think of Atticus's comment about it?

12) How does Jem react when Atticus tells him to go home, and why?

13) What persuades the lynching-party to give up their attempt on Tom's life?

14) Comment on the way Scout affects events without realizing it at the time.

Chapter 16

15) What “subtle change” does Scout notice in her father?

16) What sort of person is Dolphus Raymond?

17) How does Reverend Sykes help the children see and hear the trial? Is he right to do?

18) Comment on Judge Taylor's attitude to his job. Does he take the trial seriously or not?

For Chapters 20-25

Please answer these questions on a separate piece of paper. Unless otherwise noted, you should be able to answer each question completely in 1-3 sentences.

Chapter 20:

-In five or six sentences, paraphrase Atticus’s summation to the jury.

Chapter 21:

-Why do the Negroes stand when Atticus leaves the courtroom?

Chapter 22:

-What causes Miss. Maudie to say that at least the town has made a step in the right direction?

Chapter 24:

-In this chapter Scout learns something about being a true lady. Explain.

Chapter 25:

-In what way is Mr. Underwood’s editorial in the Maycomb Tribune similar to Atticus’s advice to Jem and Scout when they got their guns?