To Kill a Mockingbird
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TONIGHT: read chapter 9.
Prepare an interpretive question based on Ch. 9. Write it on the back of this paper. An
interpretive question might be: "According to Atticus, some things are worth fighting over even if
the people you are fighting are your friends. Why does he think this fight is worthwhile?
1.
Does Atticus defend niggers?
2.
say
When Atticus tells Scout, "Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common." What does Scout
him in response about where she learned to say "nigger"?
3.
Who is the Negro that Atticus is defending?
4.
How did Atticus come to know Tom Robinson?
5.
Why is Atticus defending Tom Robinson?
6.
Who is told: "Just hold your head high and keep those fists down?
7.
Is Atticus going to win the case? Why?
8.
Atticus told Scout: "This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our
friends." Then he tells here to remember two things. What must she remember?
9.
What did Scout do when Cecil Jacobs called her a coward?
10.
What was the good side of Christmas for Scout and Jem?
11.
What was the down side of Christmas for Scout and Jem?
12.
How did Francis, Scout and Jem's cousin come to spend Christmas at Aunt Alexandra's?
13.
with
Scout compares Aunt Alexandra to Mount Everest. What two qualities does she share
the mountain?
14.
What was in the two long packages that Uncle Jack brought for Scout and Jem?"
15.
How did Atticus and Uncle Jack greet each other?
16.
When Uncle Jack removed a splinter from Scout's foot, what three things did he do
for her that made him a good doctor?
17.
What did Uncle Jack do (that he called relativity) to divert Scout's attention from her
nasty, twisted splinter that he pulled from her foot?
18.
Why is Rose Aylmer (Uncle Jack's cat) so fat?
19.
What did Atticus tell Uncle Jack to do when Scout said, "Aw that's a damned story"?
20.
Why was Scout cussing in front of adults?
21.
In order to cuss acceptably in front of Uncle Jack, what must be associated with the cuss
words?
22.
What is "extreme provocation"?
23.
Does Scout want to grow up to be a lady?
24.
Why was it a good idea that Atticus declined to allow Scout to take her air rifle to Finch's
Landing?
25.
Why would Simon Finch put his daughter's bedroom staircase in his bedroom?
26.
What sensation did talking to Francis give Scout?
27.
Scout wasn't happy with Francis because he would tattle on her to Aunt Alexandra and
Aunt Alexandra would tattle to whom?
28.
Once Scout overheard Atticus and Aunt Alexandra arguing. What were they arguing
about?
29.
Aunt Alexandra was positively fanatical about Scout's attire. Why did Alexandra want
Scout to wear a dress?
30.
Why did Atticus allow Aunt Alexandra to isolate Scout at the little table during Christmas
dinner? What kind of influence did Atticus have in this situation?
31.
Why didn't Aunt Alexandra understand girls?
32.
What is so ironic about Francis's criticism of Dill's parents passing Dill around from
relative to relative?
33.
What two things does Francis tell Scout that Atticus does (according to Aunt Alexandra)
that causes extreme provocation in Scout?
34.
What kind of listener was Aunt Alexandra? Is this good?
35.
Why did Scout "split her knuckle clear to the bone"?
36.
Why did Scout say, "I reckon so." when Uncle Jack asked her if she had called Francis a
"whore-lady" and then jumped on him?
37.
What was happening when Scout "found myself suddenly looking at a tiny ant struggling
with a bread crumb in the grass?
38.
Why was the spanking Uncle Jack gave Scout so unfair?
39.
Why would Atticus be so upset with Scout that the family left the Landing that day?
40.
how
What was the difference between how Atticus handled Jem's and Scout's fussing and
Uncle Jack handled Scout's and Francis's fussing?
41.
What did Scout make Uncle Jack promise her to not tell Atticus about?
42.
According to Scout, did Francis get away with calling Atticus a "nigger-lover"?
43.
What kind of a scar will Scout have on her wedding-ring finger?
44.
Why couldn't Scout understand Uncle Jack's explanation of the term "whore-lady"?
45.
Why did Uncle Jack say he would never marry?
46.
According to Atticus, what is a stage that all children go through?
49.
What must Scout learn to do before the trial of Tom Robinson?
50.
How did Atticus know Scout was listening and why did he allow her to listen at the top of
the stairs to his conversation downstairs with Uncle Jack?