| What is the name of the Finch family’s homestead? | Finches Landing |
| Where does the Finch family live? | Maycomb |
| What happened to Atticus Finch’s first two clients? | Hung for Mutilating |
| What President said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”? | FDR |
| Who is Calpurnia? | The Finches cook |
| How much older than Scout is Jem? | 4 years |
| What is the town’s principle recreation? | Church |
| Why doesn’t Arthur (Boo) Radley ever come out of his house? | He’s thought to be dead, and/or hidding in the basement eating squirrles and cats. |
| Who is Dill? | Charles Baker Harris; Ms. Rachels nephew. He comes to visit Maycomb in the summer. |
| Why was Burris Ewell sent home from school? | He was dirty and Ms. Caroline said he needed to take a bath. |
| What advice does Atticus give Scout to help her survive at school? | To step into their skin and walk around in it to see it from their perspective. |
| Why is Mr. Ewell allowed to break the law and hunt out of season? | He is excempted from the law in order to feed his children. |
| When did Scout and Jem begin to find little gifts? | At the end of the school year in the old peacon tree. |
| What were these gifts? | Gum, and copper Indian penny, and old pocket watch. |
| What is a “Hot Steam”? | A soul trapped in the living world. If you walk through it you are then trapped too unless you quote “Angel-bright, life-in-death; get off the road, don’t suck my breath” |
| What new game do Scout, Jem, and Dill decide to play? | Boo Radely; they renact his life and add in details to make it more interesting. |
| Why did Scout want to give up the new game? | She didn’t like it and Atticus almost caught them once. |
| Why do Jem and Dill reject Scout? | She’s a girl. |
| Who is Miss Maudie? | Finch’s neighbors who make scummbernogs, and doesn’t ever tattle on Scout and Jem. |
| How does Dill plan to get Boo Radley to come outside? | Put a note in the house asking him to come out and talk to the kids. |
| How does Jem loose his pants? | He was sneaking around the Radley house but Mr. Nathan shoots off a shotgun scaring Dill, Scout and Jem off. Jem gets caught in the fence and he looses his pants. |
| How does Dill tell Atticus that Jem lost them? | Strip poker. |
| How does Jem get his pants back? | He sneaks out in the night and goes to the Radely house and steals them back. |
| What gifts are left for Scout and Jem in the tree? | Soap figures |
| How do they respond to the gifts? | They are freaked out thinking it is VooDoo magic. |
| Why do the gifts stop? | Mr. Nathan filled up the tree claiming it was sick. |
| Who do you think is leaving them and why? | Boo; The way his character is depicted. |
| Why does Scout think that the world is coming to an end? | Its snowing |
| Why is school cancelled that day? | It’s the first snow day since 1885 |
| What do Jem and Scout do with the free time? | They built a snowman with mud and snow. |
| Why did Jem and Scout get up in the middle of the night? | Ms. Maudie’s house had caught fire. |
| Where did the blanket come from? | Boo Radley |
| Who is Tom Robinson? | The black man Atticus is defending in a court case against the Ewells |
| What does Uncle Jack do for a living? | Doctor |
| Why does Scout start swearing ? | She hopes Atticus will think she picked it up at school and then withdraw her from school |
| Why does Uncle Jack punish Scout? | He told Scout not to swear. |
| What is Maycomb’s “usual disease”? | prejudice, racism, being unwilling to change, being determined and stubborn. |
| Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird? | Mockingbirds bring joy and have beautiful songs. |
| Why is Scout ashamed of Atticus? | He can’t do the things other childrens parents can do like play football. |
| What is wrong with old Tim Johnson? | He is sick/has rabbies. |
| Who is One-Shot Finch and how did that name come about? | Atticus; he had a nearly perfect shot but he is embarresed about it |
| How does Jem get even with Mrs. Dubose for her verbal attack on the Finch family? | He attacks her flowers with the batton he bout Scout. |
| What is Jem’s punishment? | He has to read to Mrs. Dubose for 2 hours every day after school and on the weekends. |
| What was Mrs. Dubose’s problem or illness? | Morphine addict. |
| You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.Who said this? | Atticus |
| You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.What theme does this produce? | You never know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes. |
| When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.Who is this said to? | Uncle Jack |
| Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbirdWho says this? | Atticus |
| Atticus lists 3 reasons as to why he can’t abandoned Tom Robinson’s case. What are they. | 1) If he didn’t he couldn’t hold his head up in town.2) Its the one case that affects him personally.3) They were licked 100 yaers before they started. |
| “He was nearly fifty… He was much older the parents of our school contemportaries and there was nothing Jem or I could say about him when our class mates said ‘My father-‘” Who is described here? | Atticus |
| She was the meanest old lady ever born.Who is described | Mrs. Dubose |
| Thinks her niece should wear a dress. | Aunt Alexandrea |
| Says that he knows that Dill gets shipped around and then his aunt takes him in during the summer. | Francis |
| Odd boy with white blonde hair and proclaims he can read when he first meets Scout and Jem. | Dill |
| Jem | Scouts older brother by 4 years |
| Scout | Main character; Jean Louise Finch |
| Simon Finch | Ancestor of scout and Jem discovered Simons Homestead aka Finches Landing |
| What happened to Scout and Jem’s Mom? | She died of a heart attack when Scout was 2. |
| When was Harper Lee born? | April 28, 1926 |
| Did Harper Lee ever finish College? | No. |
| What are the Themes presented in the novel? | EducationMaturingGood vs EvilRacism and PrejudiceRespectJusitice |
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 1 – 11
January 29, 2020