Answers
Scout's relationship with Calpurnia Correct Ans-"Our battles were epic and one-sided...had
been with us ever since Jem was born...tyrannical presence as long as I could remember."
Scout's relationship with Dill Correct Ans-"...a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with
eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies."
Scout's relationship with Jem Correct Ans-"'If I got killed, what'd become of you?' he
asked. Then he jumped, landed unhurt, and his sense of responsibility left him until
confronted by the Radley Place."
How Scout feels about starting school in Chapter 2. Correct Ans-"I never looked forward
more to anything in my life...I longed to join (the students)" (8).
How North Alabama was different from Maycomb County Correct Ans-"...full of Liquor
Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no
background" (9).
How Miss Caroline responds when she finds out that Scout already knows how to read
Correct Ans-She tells Scout to tell her father not to teach her any more; it would interfere
with her reading.
, To Kill a Mockingbird chapters 1-3 Questions and
Answers
Who taught Scout to write in cursive and why? Correct Ans-Calpurnia; it kept Scout from
"driving her crazy on rainy days"
Readers know that the narrator of the book is an adult when she says... Correct Ans-"we
were far too old to settle an argument with a fist-fight... when enough years had gone by to
enable us to look back"
The role Calpurnia plays in the Finch household Correct Ans-cook and caregiver
What the line "Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear
itself " (p 6) reveals about the setting of the novel Correct Ans-takes place during the Great
Depression when Franklin Delano Roosevelt made this statement during his inaugural speech
in 1932
The reader learns about Dill's personality from this example of dialog. Correct Ans-"'I'm
Charles Baker Harris,' he said. "I can read."
This piece of textual evidence describes Dill's physical appearance. Correct Ans-"He wore
blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like
duckfluff ...(Scout) towered over him.
The children "know" this happened to Arthur "Boo" Radley. Correct Ans-He got into
trouble with the law as a young man; he was going to be sent to the boy's state school, but his
father kept him under house arrest