Language Arts 10
To Kill a Mockingbird
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TKM Plot Questions: Part 1
Directions: For each chapter, complete the questions listed below using complete sentences. These questions
will be collected at the end of part 1. Use this to help guide your reading and to study for upcoming tests and
quizzes. DO NOT LOOSE THIS!
Also, fill in the vocabulary charts below each chapter section as you read the novel. This is new vocabulary that
you will also be responsible for learning.
Chapter One:
1. Describe the physical setting of the story.
2. Describe the relationship between the narrator (Scout), her brother Jem, and their father Atticus.
3. How has Mr. Radley seen to it that his younger son Arthur (Boo) caused “no further trouble” in
Maycomb?
4. Explain the changes that occur in the Radley place after the death of Mr. Radley.
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Assuaged
(p. 3)
Piety
(p. 3)
Malevolent
(p. 8)
Taciturn
(p. 4)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Chapter Two:
1. According to Miss Caroline, what “damage” has been done to Scout by Atticus and Calpurnia?
2. Describe the troubles the Cunningham family faces.
3. How do the Cunningham’s pay their debts?
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Condescended
(p. 15)
Vexation (p.
20)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Chapter Three
1. At the Finch’s for lunch, what reason does Walter give Atticus for not being able to pass the first
grade?
2. After Scout begs Atticus not to make her return to school, what advice does he give her for getting
along with people? What do you think of this advice?
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Inequities
(p. 25)
Amiable (p. 29)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Auspicious
(p. 32)
Chapter Four
1. Give the neighborhood’s opinion of Mrs. Dubose:
2. Explain the “hot steams.” What are they?
3. Describe the new game that Jem, Scout, and Dill create and what it develops into through the
summer.
4. After Atticus catches the children with the scissors, what is Jem’s reaction? What is Scout’s?
Why does she respond this way?
Chapter Five
1. Miss Maudie tells Scout that Mr. Radley (Boo’s father) is a “foot-washing Baptist” and goes on to
say that some men worry so much “about the next world” they never learned “to live in this one.”
What is Miss Maudie suggesting about Mr. Radley and his treatment of Boo?
2. Describe Jem and Dill’s plan to contact Boo Radley.
3. Give the details of the order that Atticus gives the children regarding Boo.
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Benevolence
(p. 43)
Inquisitive
(p. 49)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Chapter Six
1. Explain why Jem, Scout, and Dill run from the Radley Place.
2. Give the details about what happens to Jem’s pants.
3. What makes Scout think that she and Jem have begun “to part company?”
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Malignant
(p. 55)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Chapter Seven
1. Summarize what Scout thinks of the second grade.
2. When Jem and Scout find the knothole filled with cement, what explanation does Mr. Arthur
Radley give? What does Atticus tell them about this same tree?
3. Explain why Jem would risk his life going back to the Radley’s to retrieve his pants so Atticus will
not find out what they had done.
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Meditative
(p. 62)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Chapter Eight
1. Upon the construction of Jem’s “snowman,” Atticus gives him a compliment and then a criticism.
Give each of these comments and why you think Atticus gave them to Jem.
2. Give the explanation that Atticus provides for the blanket Scout is wearing.
3. What is Miss Maudie’s reaction to the loss of her house? Why does she feel this way?
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Aberration
(p. 63)
Rosetta Stone
(p. 63)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Chapter Nine
1. Atticus is attempting to curb Scout’s fighting and she agrees, yet she fights Cecil Jacobs at
school. Why? What happened between them?
2. Detail the advice Atticus gives Scout about fighting. Do you agree with him? Why/why not?
3. Expain Scout’s reasoning for “cussing fluently.”
4. Why does Scout fight Francis?
5. Atticus tells Jack he hopes that his children get through Tom Robinson’s trial without bitterness
and without “catching Maycomb’s usual disease.” What do you think is Maycomb’s “usual
disease?”
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Guilelessness
(p. 80)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Chapter Ten
1. Explain why Scout is upset over Atticus being “so old.”
2. Atticus tells the children they’re not to kill mockingbirds because doing so is a sin. How does Miss
Maudie explain Atticus’ reasoning to Scout?
3. Give the explanation Miss Maudie offers for “Ol’ One Shot” (Atticus) putting down his gun thirty
years ago.
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Feeble (p. 89)
Rudiment
(p. 90)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word:
Chapter Eleven
1. Discuss what Atticus does that causes Scout to say he was the “bravest man who ever lived.”
2. Explain what Jem does to Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes and why he does it.
3. Describe the “punishment” Jem must complete for the destruction of the camellia bushes. Was it
fair?
4. Give the details on how Atticus explains the term “nigger-lover” to Scout.
5. Describe the change that had occurred in Mrs. Dubose by the last week that Scout and Jem went
to her home.
6. How does Atticus explain “courage” to Jem?
Vocabulary:
Word and
Page number
Passe
(p. 99)
Interdict
(p. 102)
Tirade
(p. 106)
Devoid
(p. 110)
Cantankerous
(p. 111)
Sentence with underlined context clues:
Meaning of the word: