Atticus and - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - CHAPTER 14 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, VERIFIED. Aunt Alexandra is talking about not allowing Scout to visit Calpurnia at her home. This, combined with Aunt Alexandra's plans to make Scout into a proper young woman, causes Scout to feel like a prisoner. She uses the metaphor of a "pink cotton penitentiary" to describe what she views as an impending loss of freedom at the hands of her aunt. - -As Scout eavesdrops on Atticus and Aunt Alexandra, she says, "I...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - CHAPTER 6/ EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, VERIFIED. : "...every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge, every passing Negro laughing in the night was Boo Radley loose and after us; insects splashing against the screen were Boo Radley's insane fingers picking the wire to pieces...." Scout uses personification in the last phrase of her description: "the chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering, alive." - -How does she describe her sleep...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - CHAPTER 25 EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS. Jem stops her, explaining that the defenseless bug had done nothing to her. Like the mockingbird, the roly-poly bug is a symbol of innocence. The incident underscores the theme that thoughtless actions and/or deliberate cruelty can cause the destruction of innocent creatures, a concept that is most clearly illuminated by the death of Tom Robinson. - -As Scout is about to kill a roly-poly bug. What stops her from doing it? What t...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - CHAPTER 17 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, GRADED A+/ Mr. Heck Tate, the sheriff, is the first person to testify. On the night in question, Mr. Ewell called Tate to the house. When the sheriff got there, he found Ewell's daughter lying on the floor, badly beaten. She told the sheriff that Tom Robinson had raped and beaten her. He then got Tom Robinson, brought him to the Ewell house, and asked Mayella if he was the one. She said he was, so the sheriff arrested R...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - CHAPTER 11 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, GRADED A+/ Mrs. Dubose is an old, cranky woman. According to Scout, Mrs. Dubose spends "most of each day in bed and the rest of it in a wheelchair." If she is out on her porch when Jem and Scout pass by, she rakes them with her "wrathful gaze" and subjects them to "ruthless interrogation" regarding their behavior, telling them that they will amount to nothing when they grow up. Scout and Jem hate her. - -Scout tell...

TKAM EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, GRADED A+/ VERIFIED. Describe the physical setting of the story. - -In Maycomb County, Alabama. 1930's What is the relationship between the narrator (identified later as Scout or Jean Louise) and her brother Jem and their father? - -Scout and Jem are siblings and they're close with each other and play with each other. They fear their father. Scout has a reading relationship with her father. She reads with him a lot. She also calls her father by...

TKAM EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS & ANSWERS, GRADED A+ What is Scout's real name? - -Jean Louise Who does Dill live with in the summer? - -his aunt Rachel Where is Dill originally from? - -Meridian, Mississippi How much older than Scout is Jem? - -four years Who is Scout's first grade teacher? - -Miss Caroline What happens to make Scout's teacher cry? - -Burris calls her names What does Scout's teacher tell Scout to stop doing? - -reading What family lives by a separate set of rules, acco...

Jean Louise "Scout" Finch - correct answers The narrator and protagonist of the story Jem Finch - correct answers Scout's older brother Atticus Finch - correct answers Father to Scout and Jem; lawyer who defends Tom Robinson Author "Boo" Radley - correct answers a very quiet, reclusive character; most of Maycomb believe he is a horrible person and love to spread rumors bout him; fixes Jem's pants for him; loans Scout a blanket when Miss Maudie's house burns; saves Jem and Scout f...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD CHAPTERS 1-9 EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, GRADED A+/ Describe and identify Miss Maudie: - -a lady on their street that liked gardening, and tried to be a kind of mother for jem and Scout. She shared a lot of Atticus's views and opinions. Describe and identify Mrs. Dubose: - -old lady that lived a couple houses down, and she enjoyed harassing Jem and Scout as they passed her every day on their way to school How did Jem get even with Scout for contradicting ...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD EXAM QUESTIONS WITH SOLVED ANSWERS. What does it mean to "act responsibly?" Explain what a person needs to do in order to "act responsibly" in the 1930's in Maycomb, Alabama. In To Kill a Mockingbird, to behave responsible in 1930's Maycomb, Alabama, a person needs to rise above the petty racism that was prevalent at that time. Who can people trust in Maycomb, Alabama? Identify your impressions of Dill, Calpurnia, Jem, the narrator, Atticus, the Radleys, Miss S...