To Kill a Mockingbird
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Read Chapter One.
Prepare an interpretive question based on Chapter 1. Write it on the back of this paper. An
interpretive question might be: "Why does Scout call her father by his first name?" Answer the
following questions in complete sentences.
1.
What accident is described in the first sentence of the book?
2.
What were Jem's greatest fears after his accident?
3.
How much older than Scout was Jem?
4.
What idea did Dill give to Jem and Scout the first summer he
spent with them?
5.
What did Jem and Scout do to settle their argument about the
events leading up to the accident?
6.
Who was Atticus and what did he say about who was right in
Jem's and Scout's argument?
7.
In what region of the country did the Finches live?
8.
What was Atticus's profession?
9.
What happened to Atticus's first two clients?
10.
Because of Atticus's father, Simon Finch, who was Atticus
related to in Maycomb?
11.
Atticus invested in his brother, John Hale Finch by sending him
to medical school. How old was Atticus's brother in comparison
to Atticus?
12.
How does Scout describe the Town of Maycomb when she first
knew it?
13.
According to Scout's description, how long was a day when she
first knew Maycomb?
14.
Scout tells us that it was a time of vague optimism, and that
they only had one thing to fear. What did they have to fear?
15.
Who played with Scout and Jem, who read to them, and who
treated them with courteous detachment?
16.
Who was described as being all angles and bones, being
nearsighted, and having a hand as wide as a bed slat and twice
as hard?
17.
Calpurnia's and Scout's battles were always epic and onesided. Who always won? Why?
18.
What happened to Scout when she was two years old?
19.
How much younger was Scout's mother than Scout's father?
20.
Scout describes the Radley Place as inhabited by "an unknown
entity, the mere description of whom was enough to make us
behave for days on end..." How did she describe Mrs. Dubose?
21.
What is Charles Baker Harris's nickname and how old is he?
22.
What did Dill do with the money his mother won entering him in
the Beautiful Child Contest?
23.
Whose idea was it to make Boo Radley come out?
24.
Who was blamed for the mutilation of people's chickens and
household pets even after it was determined that Crazy Addie
was the culprit?
25.
What was the main recreation of Maycomb?
26.
Who would not pass by the Radley Place at night?
27. What happened to a baseball that was hit into the Radley's
Yard?
28.
Why were the Radley pecan nuts untouched by children?
29.
How did Jem and Scout know about Boo Radley?
30.
What did Boo Radley and the Cunningham teenagers from Old
Sarum do to attract Mr. Conner's attention?
31.
What did the teenage Radley and Cunninghams do to Mr.
Conner?
32.
What was Boo Radley's sentence (Boo's punishment) for
disorderly conduct and cussing and disturbing the peace?
33.
What was Boo Radley's second crime that he committed on his
father?
34.
How old was Boo Radley when he drove a pair of scissors into
his father's leg?
35.
What was Boo's punishment for stabbing his father and why did
his punishment end?
36.
Boo Radley's father's eyes were said to be colorless. They
were so colorless, what wouldn't they reflect?
37. What happened the day that Mr. Radley took Arthur (Boo)
home?
38.
What was Calpurnia's evaluation of Mr. Radley?
39.
Who was six and a half feet tall, dined on raw squirrels (and
any cats he could catch) and had bloodstained hands?
40.
According to Jem, what would happen to Dill if he knocked on
Boo Radley's door?
41.
What did Dill do to get Jem to touch Boo Radley's house?
42. What were Jem's first two ideas to get Boo to come out of his
house?