To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapters 1-15 Questions

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 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 write because her family taught her, Cunningham misses school to help his dad on the farm, and Ewell misses because he simply doesn't want to go and no one can make him. 4. What important lesson does Atticus teach Scout about understanding people? How might this lesson help her? ️️Atticus tells Scout to put herself in their shoes to understand their point of view. This helps her to not be selfish when thinking about things that happen in her life. 5. What compromise does Atticus make with Scout at the end of the chapter? ️️The compromise was if Scout kept going to school, Atticus would keep teaching her how to read. Chapter 4 Questions: ️️Chapter 4 Answers: 1. What does Scout find in one of the trees at the edge of the Radley's lot? Several days later, she and Jem find something else in the tree. What do they find? What do they decide to do with the items? ️️Scout finds a piece of gum and several days later they both find two Indian heads (pennies) in a tin foil. They decide to keep it until school starts, so they could ask if it belongs to anyone. 2. In the beginning of chapter 4, "Summer was on the way...," Scout describes summer by comparing it to a series of other things that remind her oft he season. What literary term best fits her description? ️️Metaphor 3. Aside from the Radley's place, what other house do the kids avoid, and why? ️️The children also avoid Mrs. Dubose's house because she is said to have been the meanest lady on the street. 4. Belief in various superstitions has emerged as a motif in the novel. What is a "Hot Steam"? ️️A "Hot Steam" is a person dies (dead person's soul/ghost) and when you walk through a hot steam you'll become one of them when you die.