TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD STUDY GUIDE AND QUOTE HUNT: …



TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD STUDY GUIDE AND QUOTE HUNT

CHAPTERS 1-11

DIRECTIONS: Answer each question and its parts completely and fully. This is to help you prepare for your test over the first part of the novel.

CHAPTER TWO

1. Describe Scout’s first day at school, including how she gets into trouble before lunch.

2. Describe Miss Caroline.

3. Does the new teacher understand children? Explain why or why not.

4. How did Scout learn to read and write?

5. What kind of people are the Cunninghams?

CHAPTER THREE

6. What happens when Walter Cunningham comes home to the Finches’s for dinner?

7. What happens that afternoon in school that upsets the teacher?

8. Why does Scout want to quit school?

9. What does Atticus tell Scout to do in order to understand people?

10. What kind of people are the Ewells?

CHAPTER FOUR

11. Name several things in this chapter that the kids find in the Radley tree.

12. Who put these treasures in the tree?

13. Why is Scout fairly sure that Boo is still alive? (Hint: What does she hear?)

14. What is the favorite subject of the dramas acted out by Jem, Scout, and Dill?

CHAPTER FIVE

15. Describe Miss Maudie.

16. How do the children feel about Miss Maudie?

17. What is Miss Maudie’s attitude toward the Radleys?

18. Describe the incident involving the children’s plan to stick a note through the shutter to Boo.

19. What does Miss Maudie say about Atticus’ behavior at the end of the first section on page 46?

CHAPTER SIX

20. What do Dill, Scout, and Jem attempt to do in this chapter?

21. What happens to Jem’s pants?

CHAPTER SEVEN

22. What advice does Scout try to follow in the first paragraph of this chapter?

23. What is surprising about the way Jem found his pants?

24. What happens when the children try to leave a thank you note?

25. Why does Jem cry?

CHAPTER EIGHT

26. Why does Scout think the world is ending?

27. How does Mr. Avery explain this weather event?

28. What do Jem and Scout do when school is called off?

29. What happens to Miss Maudie’s house?

30. Why does Miss Maudie feel the way she does about her house’s condition now?

31. Where did the blanket come from that Scout finds around her shoulders?

CHAPTER NINE

32. Who is Tom Robinson?

33. Why does Atticus say he has to defend Tom Robinson?

CHAPTER TEN

34. How do Scout and Jem view their father at the beginning of this chapter?

35. Why is it a “sin to kill a mockingbird”?

36. Name TWO characters in the story that could symbolize mockingbirds (apply the above answer).

37. What do Jem and Scout think of him after the incident with the dog?

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD QUOTE HUNT: CHAPTERS 1-11

DIRECTIONS: For each quote you will need to find the place in the text where it is spoken, identify the speaker, and answer the question about the quotation.

38. “Teach me? He hasn’t taught me anything, Miss Caroline. Atticus ain’t got no time to teach me anything” (Lee 17).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) Why is Miss Caroline upset with Atticus and the speaker?

39. “She was furious, and when she was furious, Cal’s grammar became erratic. When in tranquility, her grammar was as good as anybody’s in Maycomb. Atticus said Cal had more education than most colored folks” (Lee 24).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) Why is Calphurnia upset with the narrator?

40. “First of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. 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” (Lee 30).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) What is the speaker’s purpose in giving Scout this advice?

41. “It’s against the law, all right, and it’s certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey, his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don’t know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit” (Lee 31).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) What is the speaker trying to explain about the Ewells?

42. “…Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with” (Lee 41).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) Why is being called a girl so insulting to the narrator?

43. “Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up for a while” (Lee 45).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) What is the speaker’s view of/attitude towards Miss Stephanie?

44. “When Atticus was out of earshot [the speaker] yelled: ‘I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!’ ” (Lee 50).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) Why does the speaker say this?

45. “It’s like this, Scout. Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I can remember. I wanta keep it that way”

(Lee 56).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) If he doesn’t spank often, how does Atticus keep his children in line?

46. “Before I’m through, I intend to jar the jury a bit—I think we’ll have a reasonable chance on appeal, though. I really can’t tell at this stage, Jack. You know, I’d hoped to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed at me and said, ‘You’re it.’” (Lee 88).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) How does the speaker feel about the case?

47. “But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said” (Lee 89).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) What does Atticus want to speaker to learn from overhearing his conversation?

48. “Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said he got started late, which we felt reflected on his abilities and manliness” (Lee 89).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) How do Jem and Scout see their father?

49. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”

(Lee 90).

(a) Who is speaking?:

(b) Why does the speaker give the children this warning?

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