Ch 1-4
Your name: Chris Thompson
Study Questions: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Ch 1-4
Chapter 1
1. What was the name of Simon's homestead? Finch’s landing
2. When Atticus went to Montgomery to read law, what tradition was broken?
The man of the family staying on the “Landing”
3. T - F Alexandra married an ambitious man. F
4. How many people lived in the narrator's house? 4
5. How did Jem's mother die? Sudden heart attack
6. How many houses separated Atticus's residence from the Radley place? 2
7. What was Dill's full name? Charles Baker Harris
8. T - F Scout was taller than Dill.
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9. T - F The Radleys were new to Maycomb County.F
10.T - F Arthur is Boo Radley. T
11. Who took Mr. Radley's place when he went under? Boo's elder brother
Nathan
12. Who wanted to try and make Boo come out? Dill
13. T - F All three children touched the Radley place with their palms.
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Chapter 2
1. How did Scout feel about the idea of beginning school? She frowned upon it,
and didn’t want to do it.
2. Who took Scout to school? Jem
3. What did Miss Fisher accuse Scout of being?
4. How did Scout learn to read? Reading out of the newspaper.
5. What did Calpurnia teach Scout to do? Write
6 T - F Walter's father was one of Atticus's clients. T
7 T - F Miss Caroline resorted to corporeal punishment on the first day of class.
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Chapter 3
1. T - F Scout promised not to jump on Walter again. T
2. Why hasn't Walter Cunningham passed the first grade? Every spring Walter
has to miss school and help his father with the chopping.
3. Why did Calpurnia request Scout's presence in the kitchen? Scout was
criticizing Walter's table manners, and usage of molasses, and
Calpurnia had to chastize her.
4. Where did Scout finish her dinner? In the kitchen
5. Was Atticus swayed by Scout's petition to have Calpurnia fired? NO
6. What crawled out of Burris Ewell's hair? A cootie or lice.
7. Who else besides Miss Caroline told Burris to go home? Little Chuck Little
8 What did Calpurnia do to make up with Scout? She made fresh, hot
crackling bread.
9 According to Atticus, when does one understand a person? When you
consider things from his point of view.
10 Name two favors that Maycomb County cut the Ewells. A) They didn't have
to go to school. B) Bob Ewell could hunt and trap out of season.
11 State the bargain that Atticus struck with Scout. If she would continue
going to school, he would continue reading to her at night.
Chapter 4
1. T - F Scout was favorably impressed with the Maycomb County school
system. F
2. What was in the knot-hole of one of the oak trees? Two pieces of chewing
gum.
3. Who was the meanest old woman who ever lived? Ms. Dubose
4. Who was president of the L & N Railroad? Dill's father.
5. Who played the part of Boo? Jem
6. Who had the most to say about the Radleys than anybody in Maycomb? Miss
Stephanie Crawford
7. What was Scout's first reason for wanting to quit the Boo-Radley game? Fear
of Boo Radley himself, who she suspected to be inside the house.
CH 5 –8 Study Questions: To Kill a Mockingbird, by
Harper Lee
Your name : Chris Thompson
Chapter 5
1. Jem decided they could continue playing their game if they did what? change
the names of the characters
2. What friendly neighbor is always outside, especially in her garden? Ms Maudie
3. What are her other “talents” and habits? Cooking hotcakes
4. Who did Jem send a note to and what did it say? Boo, asking him to come
out for ice cream.
5. What treat was offered as a lure to get him to come out?
Ice cream
6. Who caught Jem and Scout before they were able to leave the note?
Mr. Atticus Finch
7. What did Atticus tell them to stop doing, and why? He told them to stop
annoying and pestering him,
Chapter 6
1. What were the children doing that got them in the situation of “spitting
themselves dry?” They had to get Jem’s pants back.
2. What sound shattered the neighborhood? Nathan Radely’s shotgun
3. How did Dill explain the loss of Jem's pants to the crowd in front of the Radley
place? They were playing strip poker
4. How did Scout react to Jem going after his pants? She was going to tell atticus
but she ended up going with him.
5.TF Mr. Nathan Radley had to use the other barrel before the night was over. F
6. What was the outcome of Jem’s mission? He got his pants back.
Chapter 7
1. What did Jem find unusual about his britches? They were folded and sewn up
2. How long did Jem and Scout wait before they considered everything they
found in the knot-hole to be their property? A three-day waiting period
3. Why wasn't the letter delivered? The knot-hold was plugged up with cement
4. What did Mr. Radley say was the reason for cementing the knot-hole? The
tree was dying.
5. What could be his ulterior – real - motive for cementing the knot-hole? To
prevent Boo from interacting with the children.
Chapter 8
1. How did Jem and Scout feel about Mrs. Radley's death? They were
disappointed that she died from natural causes instead of from Boo.
2. Why was school closed? It had snowed in Maycomb County.
3. What was the "slushy operation"? Transferring as much snow as they (Jem &
Scout) could from Miss Maudie's yard to theirs.
4. The snowman was a caricature of which neighbor? Mr. Avery
Mr. Radley
5. Whose house burned down in this chapter? Ms. Maudie’s
6. Where did the owner of the home stay after it burnt down? Miss Stephanie
Crawford.
7. Who put the brown woolen blanket around Scout? Boo Radley
Chapter 9
1. What does Atticus warn Scout to hold and keep from doing? Hold temper, not
fight
2. Which black man is Atticus defending? Tom Robinson
3. How did Scout respond to Cecil’s name calling? She walks away
4. How did Scout feel about how she handled Cecil's name calling? She feels
she was the bigger person
5. What words did Uncle Jack not want to hear from Scout? Damn and hell.
6. Where do they spend Christmas and with whom?
7. What did Jem and Scout get for Christmas? Air rifles
8. What does Francis says that the rest of the family feeling about Atticus as a
parent? They said he let the children disgrace the family
9. Why did Scout split her knuckle to the bone on Francis's front teeth? He made
fun of Atticus defending a Negro.
10. What is the “usual disease” of Maycomb Atticus talking about while Scout is
eavesdropping? Racism
Chapter 10
1. Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird? Because mockingbirds don’t do anything
but sing their songs all day to please people.
2. Which neighbor speaks highly of Atticus's legal talents? Ms. Maudie
3. How does Atticus do, in regards to Cecil Jacobs's father, in the touch football
game? Atticus didn’t play
4. Who informs Atticus about Mr. Harry Johnson's mad dog, old Tim Johnson?
Calpurnia
5. Who informs Miss Rachel and Miss Stephanie Crawford about the mad dog?
Miss Eula May, the town operator
6. Who is the first to address Atticus by his old nickname? Miss Maudie
7. What is the nickname?
8. What didn’t Atticus want Scout bragging about at school on Monday? Shooting
the dog.
9. What is the reason Miss Maudie suggests for Atticus not shooting a gun
anymore?
10. How do Scout and Jem feel about their father at the end of the chapter?
Proud
Chapter 11
1. Why did the Finch children dislike passing by Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's
house? She always had something mean, and vicious to say about them
2. Atticus advised his son to act like a gentleman toward whom? Mrs. Dubose
3. What did Atticus do that made Scout think he was the bravest man who had
ever lived? Atticus was polite and cordial toward Mrs. Dubose.
4. T F Jem bought his sister a real baton. T
5. To show his wrath for Mrs. Dubose, what did Jem do? He cut the tops off
every camellia Bush Mrs. Dubose owned and proceeded to bend Scout's new
baton against his knee.
6. What did Jeremy have to do for one month? Read out loud for two hours a
day to Mrs. Dubose
7. As a reward for completing their first day's session with Mrs. Dubose, what did
Atticus bring the kids? Two yellow pencils for Scout and a football magazine
for Jem.
8. Did Mrs. Dubose kick the morphine habit? Explain. Each day the alarm clock
was set for a longer period of time whild Jem read to her. That was how she
prolonged her time with-out morphine.