To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapters 1-15 Questions
Chapter 1 Questions: ️️Chapter 1 Answers:
1. Who is the narrator of the novel? What type of narration is used? ️️The narrator of the novel is
Scout and first person point of view is the narration during the novel.
2. The narrator begins...
1. Who is the narrator of the novel? What type of narration is used? ✔️✔️The narrator of the novel is
Scout and first person point of view is the narration during the novel.
2. The narrator begins her story by giving the reader background information. What does the narrator
reveal about her family history in the first several pages? ✔️✔️The family history is dirty, slow, boring,
and tired (gloomy) while there's nothing to buy and no money to buy it with.
3. The novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930's, during the Great Depression. What indicates
that most of the towns people are poor? ✔️✔️Her relative Simon Finch found land, grew cotton, and
continued to live on the land until Atticus Finch came along, which indicates that the towns people are
poor.
4. How does Scout describe the way she and her brother feel about their father? ✔️✔️Scout says he
reads to them and respects them, though he treats them with "courteous detachment" meaning he was
polite to them but a little distant.
5. What happened to Scout and Jem's mother? ✔️✔️She died early of a heart attack.
6. Who is Calpurnia? How does Scout describe her? Identify a simile that she uses in her description.
(simile is compares 2 things that are alike in some way. To identify a simile it uses "like" or "as".)
✔️✔️Calpurnia is the house maid and was all angles and bones, slim, near sighted, and African
American. On simile was, "her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard."
7. How does Jem and Scout meet Dill? How does Scout describe the boy? ✔️✔️Scout and Jem
strangely heard a noise coming from Miss Rachel Haverford's porch. Later they met Dill and Scout
characterizes him as very small for his age, with white hair (very bright blond), and blue linen shorts.
,8. What is frightening to the children about the Radley's house? What lives in the house, according to
Scout? ✔️✔️Boo Radley is the frightening "malevolent phantom" that lives in the house. An evil ghost.
9. Describe some of the rumors surrounding the Radley's house and its inhabitant. How does the reader
know that some of the rumors are untrue and that fears concerning the house may be unfolded?
✔️✔️Many rumors that go around are that Boo stabbed his father in the leg, that they chain him to a
bed, and that small animals are found dead around the house. Boo is said to only go out at night and has
been caught peering into people's windows. He is also said to eat squirrels and cats he catches. The
reason readers know that some of the rumors are untrue is because of neighborhood gossip- no one has
seen anything that would prove the rumors true.
10. Beginning with the line, "The misery of that house began many years before Jem and I were born,"
Scout tells the reader the sad history of the Radley family. Briefly summarize what happened to the
family. ✔️✔️It all started when they kept all to themselves and didn't talk to anyone in the
community. They didn't go to Church and Boo got in trouble and was released to his father on the
condition that Boo never caused any trouble again. This is why Boo has never truly been seen.
11. How did the townspeople feel about the Radley family? How did they view Mr. Radley in particular?
Provide quotes from the text to support your answer. ✔️✔️Many of the townspeople were scared of
him and Calpurnia says that Mr. Radley is the "meanest man God ever blew breath into."
12. After Dill wonders aloud what Boo Radley looks like, Jem gives a description form his imagination.
How does he describe Boo? What image does his description provoke? ✔️✔️Jem depicted Boo to be
about 6 feet tall, judging from his tracks. He was usually dining on raw squirrel and any cat he could
catch. That's why his hands were always bloodstained: if you ate any animal raw, you could never wash
the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and
rotten. His eye popped and he drooled most of the time, which to most was characterized as a monster.
13. On what dramatic note does chapter 1 end? What do the kids do, and what is the result of their
action? ✔️✔️At the end of Chapter 1 there was a movement in the shutter. Then Dill ran up to the
Radley's house and slapped it. Only later did a shutter move.
Chapter 2 Questions: ✔️✔️Chapter 2 Answers:
1. Describe Scout's teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher. What is irrational about her teaching methods?
✔️✔️Miss Caroline Fisher is around 21 with auburn hair and rosy pink cheeks. She wears a white
, striped dress with heels and has crimson nail polish. Her teaching methods are irrational because she
tells Scout to stop letting her father teach her how to read because he's doing it wrong, even though she
already knows how to read.
2. How did Scout learn to read and write? ✔️✔️Scout learned to read and write by picking it up by
watching her father read, and writing for Calpurnia who made her copy the Bible, then rewarded her
with food.
3. Describe the Cunningham clan. ✔️✔️The Cunningham clan are poor farmers who never take
anything they cannot pay back with crops.
4. When Scout asks her father if they are as poor as the Cunningham's, how does he respond? Through
Atticus, what does the reader learn about the Great Depression and how it affected different classes of
people in different ways? ✔️✔️Atticus says that they are indeed poor, but not as poor as the
Cunningham's. He said during the Great Depression, the farmers were hit first and they did not make
enough money to go to lawyers or doctors.
5. Why does Miss Caroline punish Scout? ✔️✔️Scout is punished because she talks back to her teacher
because Miss Caroline doesn't understand the Cunningham's situation.
Chapter 3 Questions: ✔️✔️Chapter 3 Answers:
1. What does Scout do to make Calpurnia furious? What lesson does Calpurnia teach Scout?
✔️✔️Scout makes a rude comment about Walker Cunningham's use of molasses and this makes him
feel uncomfortable. Calpurnia's lesson in return is that anyone who enters the house is a guest and
should be treated kindly no matter who they are.
2. Who are the Ewells, and why are they treated differently than others? Identify the "certain privileges"
they get. ✔️✔️The Ewells are white trash people who are lazy, bad, and dishonest. They can hunt out
of season and not have to go to school. People in Maycomb don't want to deal with them so they allow
them not to follow the rules.
3. Compare the education levels to Scout, Walter Cunningham, and Buris Ewell. How do these
comparisons emphasize the relationship between the class and education? ✔️✔️Scout can read and
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