To Kill a Mockingbird: Study Questions Chapters 4 – 7
Directions:
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Use complete sentences and avoid ambiguous pronouns by rephrasing each question at the beginning of
each response. Where possible, use the text to support your answers.
Ambiguous pronoun: “She always wins the arguments.”
Resolved: “Calpurnia always wins the arguments.”
Chapter 4: “Grown folks don’t have hidin’ places” (46).
1. What is the first gift that appears in the hollow tree? What other gifts do the children find?
2. When Scout rolls into the Radley front yard in the tire, what does she hear?
3. When Atticus reacts to Jem’s Boo Radley game, what do you notice about the way he disciplines his children?
List several principles in which you think he believes.
Chapter 5: “His name’s Arthur and he’s alive” (57).
4. What does Scout admire about Miss Maudie?
5. What do you learn about Uncle Jack?
6. What new plan do the boys devise to get Boo to come out? Why doesn’t it work?
7. What does Dill say that causes Scout to accuse him of lying?
8. What direct order does Atticus give the children?
9. Explain Miss Maudie’s statement “…sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle
in the hand of—oh, of your father” (60). Think of an instance in today’s world when this might be true. Explain.
Chapter 6: “It was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first began to part company” (75).
10. How do the children plan to spend Dill’s last night in Maycomb?
11. What goes wrong with the children’s escape plan?
12. At whom does Mr. Nathan think he has fired his gun?
13. How do the children claim to have spent the evening?
14. What makes Jem decide to return to the Radley yard that night?
Chapter 7: “As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it” (77).
15. What does Jem tell Scout about “that night” at Boo Radley’s?
16. What new gifts do the kids find in the knothole? There are five.
17. What ends the knothole gifts?
18. Why do you think Mr. Nathan Radley filled in the knothole in a healthy tree?