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Chapter 6-11 Review for TKAM Test 2
Chapter 6
On Dill’s last night in_____Maycomb_______________, Jem and Dill plan to peep into
_______Radley_______’s house. Scout becomes involved, despite her fears, because Jem accuses
her of acting like a_________________________. While the children are on
the_______Radley_________________ property, Mr.____Nathan______________ Radley hears
noises, comes outside, and_______shoots_________________. As the children are running away,
Jem’s _______pants__________ become stuck on the fence and he must leave them there. The
neighbors gather after hearing the ______ruckus______________, and the adults quickly become
aware of Jem’s state of undress. Dill covers for them by saying they were playing_____strip
poker______________________, and he won Jem’s_________pants____________ off of him. Atticus
tells Jem to retrieve them. In the early hours of the morning, Jem goes back to
the__________Radley_________ property to retrieve his_______pants________________.
Chapter 7
______Summer________________ starts again. Jem finally tells Scout the whole story about
retrieving his________pants________. When he returned they were folded
and_____sewed______________ like someone was waiting for him. Over the next weeks, Scout and
Jem find more treasures in the_____tree knot___________:
soap________caricatures______________, gum, a tarnished__________medal___________, and a
broken_______watch_______________. They write a thank you note to put in the__________tree
knot______________, but when they go to leave it they find that the hold has been plugged up
with___________cement__________. Nathan Radley said the tree is______dead________________,
although it appears healthy. Jem spends the evening outside gazing at the tree. When he comes
inside it is clear that he has been____crying_________________.
Chapter 8
A true cold __winter__________ arrives in Alabama. ______Snow___ falls, a phenomenon
not seen since ____1885______. Miss ____Maudie_________’s house catches fire in the night and
burns to the ground. When the Finches return to their home in the morning, _____Atticus_____
asks Scout where she got the __blanket___________ that is around her shoulders. Scout realizes
that _____Boo_________ must have covered her up, she didn’t even notice. The next day Scout
and Jem speak to Miss Maudie about losing her ____house______; she doesn’t seem that upset.
Chapter 9
Scout fights __________Francis____________ for calling _________Atticus____ a
____n*****_______-lover regarding his defense of _______Tom Robinson________________, a black
man accused of ___________raping_____ a white woman. Atticus explains that he doesn’t expect
to ________win____ the trial but that he couldn’t live with himself if he didn’t try. He asks Scout
to curb her ______anger_______. She successfully walks away from ___________ the next day.
Christmas arrives and brings Uncle Jack, Atticus’s brother. At Finch’s
_______Landing___________ on Christmas day, Scout loses her ___temper_________ with young
_______Francis_______ who says Atticus is _____disgrac___________ing the family.
__________Jack_______ whips Scout for fighting and using bad _____language________. Back
home that evening. Scout explains what ____Francis__________ said to make her angry. Uncle
Jack wants ___________Francis___ punished but ____Scout___________ begs him not to say
anything because she knows Atticus doesn’t want her _______fighting___________ on his behalf.
Atticus worries about Scout making it through difficult times ahead of them.
Chapter 10
Scout and Jem are bothered that ___Atticus________is older than their friends’
__dads___________ and cannot engage in typical activities with them. When ___Tim_______
Johnson, a mad ____dog_____, comes walking down their street, _______Atticus______ kills him
with one shot. Jem is in awe of _____Atticus_______’s skill; he understands that
_________Atticus_______ doesn’t boast about his skills because that wouldn’t be gentlemanly.
Chapter 11
Scout describes Mrs.____Dubose________, a mean elderly woman who lives on her street.
Whenever Scout and Jem pass by, Mrs. ____ Dubose _________ says terrible things about their
_________father_____. One day Scout and Jem are walking to ______town_____, and Mrs. Dubose
insults ______Atticus_______ because he is defending _____a black man_____________. Jem says
nothing but is visibly angered. In town he buys himself a miniature __train-set______________
and buys Scout a ___________baton_____. On the way home Mrs. Dubose is not outside;
______Jem_____ grabs the baton and destroys all of her ____Camellias ____________. As
punishment, ____Atticus________ orders Jem to ___read______ to Mrs. Dubose every afternoon.
The reading periods gets ___longer____________ each day until the punishment is over about five
weeks later. Not long after that Mrs. Dubose ___dies___________. _______Atticus_________
explains that Mrs. Dubose was using the reading time as a way to wean herself away from her
_____morphine_______ addiction so that she could die on her own terms.