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To Kill a Mockingbird Review Sheet -- Due the day of your final exam.
Be able to identify an example of foreshadowing, irony, simile, metaphor, personification,
and symbolism.
Questions to Know:
Who wrote the novel?
What historical event is taking place during the novel?
What is the setting (time and place)? How is the story told (chronological order, flashback, etc)?
What point of view is the novel (first, third, etc.)?
How were the author and narrator similar?
What is the climax of the novel?
Explain Scout’s experiences with school.
What are the various ways Scout, Jem, and Dill torment Boo throughout the novel?
Explain the symbolism surrounding mockingbirds. Who are the mockingbirds in the story?
Why did Jem and Scout begin to believe that Atticus was a cool guy after all?
Explain the chapter that deals with Mrs. Dubose. What was the situation with Jem and Mrs.
Dubose and what happened?
Explain why Atticus was appointed to Tom’s case and what he plans to do as Tom’s lawyer.
What difference about Calpurnia does Scout notice when she attends church with her?
Where do the Ewells live?
Explain the trial. Think about Mayella’s, Bob’s, and Tom’s testimonies when doing so, and
think about the closing argument Atticus makes.
What happens to Tom when he tries to escape prison?
Explain the end of the novel, starting at the kids leaving the Halloween pageant and ending with
the conversation between Atticus and Heck Tate on the Finches’ front porch.
Who hires Helen Robinson for work?
Why does Dill run away from home?
What does Aunt Alexandra care most about?
On which trial does Harper Lee base Tom Robinson’s trial?
Quotes to Know (who said it?):
“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide
by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
“That nigger yonder took advantage of me an’ if you fancy fine gentlemen don’t wanta do
nothin’ about it then you’re all stinkin’ yellow cowards…”
“I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em…”
“I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do
because that’s the way I want to live.”
"If Uncle Atticus lets you run around with stray dogs, that's his own business, like Grandma says,
so it ain't your fault. I guess it ain't your fault if Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover besides, but I'm
here to tell you it certainly does mortify the rest of the family-"
“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo
was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck
pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we
took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
“Miss Jean Louise stand up. Your father’s passing.”
“You never understand a person until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.”
Characters to Know:
Miss Maudie
Scout
Tom Robinson
Boo Radley
Aunt Alexandra
Mrs. Dubose
Jem
Atticus
Calpurnia
Dill Harris
Francis
Dolphus Raymond
Know the themes/lessons this book teaches and be able to explain/support them with
evidence from the book