To Kill a Mockingbird Full Book Review Complete Answers
It is on the right side ✔️✔️What does Atticus want the jury to note about Mayella's black eye?
He is left handed ✔️✔️What does Atticus want to jury to note about Mr. Ewell?
Tom has a left hand that is crippled. ✔️✔️What is important to note about Tom?
Jem was thinking that Atticus had won the case before the jury had come back with the verdict- AKA
"counting chickens before the eggs hatch" ✔️✔️At the end of Chapter 17, Jem thinks that Atticus will
win the case, but Scout says, "I thought Jem was counting his chickens." What does that mean?
Jean Louise Finch (Scout) ✔️✔️What is the narrator's name?
Jeremy Atticus Finch (Jem) ✔️✔️What is the narrator's brother's name?
Atticus Finch ✔️✔️What is the main character's father's name?
Boo Radley, Miss Rachel, Miss Maudie, Mr. Avery, etc. ✔️✔️Tell one of the main character's
neighbors' names.
Charles Baker Harris (Dill) ✔️✔️What is the name of the boy who moves in with his Aunt Rachel every
summer?
First grade ✔️✔️What grade is Scout in at the beginning of the book?
Touch the Radley's house ✔️✔️Going back to August, Dill dares Jem to do what?
,A flicker in the Radley home window is seen after Jem touches the house ✔️✔️After Jem touches the
Radley house and runs away, something else happens. What?
Walter Cunningham ✔️✔️Who came home for lunch with Jem and Scout?
A cootie ✔️✔️What was in Burris's hair?
They only attend school the first day, they are dirty, etc. ✔️✔️Give a fact about the Ewell family
A piece of gum ✔️✔️What does Scout first find in the Radley tree hole?
Chews it ✔️✔️What does Scout do with the first gift she finds in the Radley tree hole?
She hears someone laughing inside the Radley house ✔️✔️What is something eerie that happens
after Scout crashes the tire in the Radley yard?
Arthur Radley ✔️✔️What is Boo's given name?
She would have seen his body carried out of the house ✔️✔️How does Miss Maudie know that Boo is
still alive?
A letter ✔️✔️What do the kids try to give Boo before the knot-hole is closed?
Boo Radley stabbling his father with scissors ✔️✔️What scene do the kids like to act out?
Prejudice/racism ✔️✔️What is "Maycomb's usual disease?"
Finches' cook. Acts as a mother to Scout and Jem b/c their mother died when they were young. Black.
Taught Scout to read. Her praise is hard to come by ✔️✔️Describe Calpurnia
,He hung out with the wrong crowd (people from Old Sarum) and did some bad things. Was going to be
made to go to industrial school, but his father got him out of it. ✔️✔️Why was Arthur Radley in
trouble with the law?
Mr. Radley promised Boo would not cause any more trouble, and Mr. Radley's "word was his law" and
the judge agreed to let Boo go. Boo was locked up and never seen again for 15 yrs. ✔️✔️How did
Arthur escape industrial school?
Boo (33 yrs old) was cutting up the Maycomb Tribune and stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of
scissors ✔️✔️Why did Mrs. Radley run into the street screaming that Arthur was killing them all?
Boo was locked up in the courthouse basement. ✔️✔️Where was Arthur locked up?
Nathan Radley comes to take his father's place. ✔️✔️Why doesn't Boo come out of the house after his
father dies?
She can read and write already. ✔️✔️Why is Scout in trouble with the teacher on her first day of
school?
Atticus is talking about the Great Depression. Professional people do service jobs and need farmers as
their clients. Farmers cannot afford professional services, so everyone's poor. ✔️✔️What does Atticus
mean when he says that professional people are poor because farmers are poor? (pg. 27)
She calls Walter Cunningham out for pouring syrup all over his dinner. Calpurnia yells at Scout and
teaches her about company. ✔️✔️How does Scout get in trouble at dinner?
Burris Ewell has a "cootie" or bug in his hair. ✔️✔️Why does Miss Caroline send Burris Ewell home?
He is very rude and cusses at her. ✔️✔️How does Burris respond to being sent home?
She isn't allow to read or write. ✔️✔️Why doesn't Scout want to go to school?
, He tells Scout to consider things from the other person's point of view and to "climb into his skin and
walk around in it." ✔️✔️What does Atticus suggest is the way to get along with people?
Yes, if she doesn't tell Miss Caroline. ✔️✔️Will Atticus continue to read to Scout?
Answers vary. ✔️✔️What do Jem and Scout find in the knot-hole of the tree?
A person who cannot go to heaven, so he or she just hangs out on lonely roads. If you walk through one,
when you die you'll become a Hot Steam too and you go around at night sucking out peoples' breath.
One has to say 'angel-bright, light-in-death, get off the road don't suck my breath!" to protect yourself
✔️✔️What is a Hot Steam?
The children are rolling around in the Finch's old car tire and Jem is angry at Scout about saying Hot
Steams aren't real. He pushes the tire down the sidewalk as hard as he can, and Scout ends up at the
front steps of the Radley house. ✔️✔️How does Scout end up at the front steps of the Radley house?
Someone inside of the house laughing ✔️✔️What does Scout think she hears and she crawls out of
the tire?
A widow who loves gardening. Makes the best cakes in the neighborhood, is a friend of Scout and Dill
and Jem. She's known Jack Finch since she was a child. A Baptist. Has the children's trust.
✔️✔️Describe Miss Maudie
Dill and Jem want to peek into the Radley house through a loose shutter. ✔️✔️Why do Dill and Jem go
for a walk one night at the end of the summer?
She is acting like a girl. ✔️✔️What does Jem say that makes Scout decide to join them?
They say Jem lost his pants to Dill in a game of strip poker, but he actually got them caught on Boo
Radley's fence. ✔️✔️What does Dill say happened to Jem's pants? What really happened to them?
It is on the right side ✔️✔️What does Atticus want the jury to note about Mayella's black eye?
He is left handed ✔️✔️What does Atticus want to jury to note about Mr. Ewell?
Tom has a left hand that is crippled. ✔️✔️What is important to note about Tom?
Jem was thinking that Atticus had won the case before the jury had come back with the verdict- AKA
"counting chickens before the eggs hatch" ✔️✔️At the end of Chapter 17, Jem thinks that Atticus will
win the case, but Scout says, "I thought Jem was counting his chickens." What does that mean?
Jean Louise Finch (Scout) ✔️✔️What is the narrator's name?
Jeremy Atticus Finch (Jem) ✔️✔️What is the narrator's brother's name?
Atticus Finch ✔️✔️What is the main character's father's name?
Boo Radley, Miss Rachel, Miss Maudie, Mr. Avery, etc. ✔️✔️Tell one of the main character's
neighbors' names.
Charles Baker Harris (Dill) ✔️✔️What is the name of the boy who moves in with his Aunt Rachel every
summer?
First grade ✔️✔️What grade is Scout in at the beginning of the book?
Touch the Radley's house ✔️✔️Going back to August, Dill dares Jem to do what?
,A flicker in the Radley home window is seen after Jem touches the house ✔️✔️After Jem touches the
Radley house and runs away, something else happens. What?
Walter Cunningham ✔️✔️Who came home for lunch with Jem and Scout?
A cootie ✔️✔️What was in Burris's hair?
They only attend school the first day, they are dirty, etc. ✔️✔️Give a fact about the Ewell family
A piece of gum ✔️✔️What does Scout first find in the Radley tree hole?
Chews it ✔️✔️What does Scout do with the first gift she finds in the Radley tree hole?
She hears someone laughing inside the Radley house ✔️✔️What is something eerie that happens
after Scout crashes the tire in the Radley yard?
Arthur Radley ✔️✔️What is Boo's given name?
She would have seen his body carried out of the house ✔️✔️How does Miss Maudie know that Boo is
still alive?
A letter ✔️✔️What do the kids try to give Boo before the knot-hole is closed?
Boo Radley stabbling his father with scissors ✔️✔️What scene do the kids like to act out?
Prejudice/racism ✔️✔️What is "Maycomb's usual disease?"
Finches' cook. Acts as a mother to Scout and Jem b/c their mother died when they were young. Black.
Taught Scout to read. Her praise is hard to come by ✔️✔️Describe Calpurnia
,He hung out with the wrong crowd (people from Old Sarum) and did some bad things. Was going to be
made to go to industrial school, but his father got him out of it. ✔️✔️Why was Arthur Radley in
trouble with the law?
Mr. Radley promised Boo would not cause any more trouble, and Mr. Radley's "word was his law" and
the judge agreed to let Boo go. Boo was locked up and never seen again for 15 yrs. ✔️✔️How did
Arthur escape industrial school?
Boo (33 yrs old) was cutting up the Maycomb Tribune and stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of
scissors ✔️✔️Why did Mrs. Radley run into the street screaming that Arthur was killing them all?
Boo was locked up in the courthouse basement. ✔️✔️Where was Arthur locked up?
Nathan Radley comes to take his father's place. ✔️✔️Why doesn't Boo come out of the house after his
father dies?
She can read and write already. ✔️✔️Why is Scout in trouble with the teacher on her first day of
school?
Atticus is talking about the Great Depression. Professional people do service jobs and need farmers as
their clients. Farmers cannot afford professional services, so everyone's poor. ✔️✔️What does Atticus
mean when he says that professional people are poor because farmers are poor? (pg. 27)
She calls Walter Cunningham out for pouring syrup all over his dinner. Calpurnia yells at Scout and
teaches her about company. ✔️✔️How does Scout get in trouble at dinner?
Burris Ewell has a "cootie" or bug in his hair. ✔️✔️Why does Miss Caroline send Burris Ewell home?
He is very rude and cusses at her. ✔️✔️How does Burris respond to being sent home?
She isn't allow to read or write. ✔️✔️Why doesn't Scout want to go to school?
, He tells Scout to consider things from the other person's point of view and to "climb into his skin and
walk around in it." ✔️✔️What does Atticus suggest is the way to get along with people?
Yes, if she doesn't tell Miss Caroline. ✔️✔️Will Atticus continue to read to Scout?
Answers vary. ✔️✔️What do Jem and Scout find in the knot-hole of the tree?
A person who cannot go to heaven, so he or she just hangs out on lonely roads. If you walk through one,
when you die you'll become a Hot Steam too and you go around at night sucking out peoples' breath.
One has to say 'angel-bright, light-in-death, get off the road don't suck my breath!" to protect yourself
✔️✔️What is a Hot Steam?
The children are rolling around in the Finch's old car tire and Jem is angry at Scout about saying Hot
Steams aren't real. He pushes the tire down the sidewalk as hard as he can, and Scout ends up at the
front steps of the Radley house. ✔️✔️How does Scout end up at the front steps of the Radley house?
Someone inside of the house laughing ✔️✔️What does Scout think she hears and she crawls out of
the tire?
A widow who loves gardening. Makes the best cakes in the neighborhood, is a friend of Scout and Dill
and Jem. She's known Jack Finch since she was a child. A Baptist. Has the children's trust.
✔️✔️Describe Miss Maudie
Dill and Jem want to peek into the Radley house through a loose shutter. ✔️✔️Why do Dill and Jem go
for a walk one night at the end of the summer?
She is acting like a girl. ✔️✔️What does Jem say that makes Scout decide to join them?
They say Jem lost his pants to Dill in a game of strip poker, but he actually got them caught on Boo
Radley's fence. ✔️✔️What does Dill say happened to Jem's pants? What really happened to them?
