For each chapter of the book, you will keep a log of ideas. For each entry, you will have the following:

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1 Name To Kill a Mockingbird study guide For each chapter of the book, you will keep a log of ideas. For each entry, you will have the following: 1. Chapter number 2. Creative title for the chapter 3. An open-ended question (the question can not be a 'yes' or 'no' question). 4. An answer to your question (#3) 5. A list of new characters introduced in the chapter. Please respond to the following on YOUR own paper. Also, to earn full credit, answers must be formed in complete sentences. I highly recommend you indicate at the end of your sentence what page you found the information. CHAPTER ONE 1. In what state does the novel take place? 2. What does the children s father, Atticus Finch, do for a living? 3. From whose point of view is the story told? 4. Who is Calpurnia and what is she like? 5. Who is Dill and where is he from? 6. What game does Dill invent? 7. What does Arthur (Boo) Radley do that landed him temporarily in jail? 8. According to Jem s description, what does Boo look like? 9. What act of courage on Jem s part ends the chapter? CHAPTER TWO and CHAPTER THREE 1. When Jem takes Scout to school for her first day, what order does he give her? 2. On her first day of school, what three (3) things does Scout get in trouble for? 3. What two things (2) does Miss Caroline tell Scout that Atticus is not to do any more?

2 4. At the Finch home for lunch, what reason does Walter Cunningham Jr. give Atticus for not being able to pass the first grade? 5. After Cal makes Scout leave the table, what lecture does she give Scout? 6. After Scout begs Atticus not to make her return to school, what advice does he give her for getting along with people? CHAPTER FOUR 1. What is the first gift that appears in the hollow tree? What other gifts do the children find? 2. What new facts does Dill offer about his father? 3. How has the Boo Radley game changed? 4. When Scout rolls into the Radley front yard in the tire, what does she hear? CHAPTER FIVE 1. What does Scout admire about Miss Maudie? 2. What does the reader learn about Uncle Jack? 3. What new plan do the boys devise to get Boo to come out? Does it work? Why or why not? 4. What does Dill say that causes Scout to accuse him of lying? 5. What direct order does Atticus give the children? CHAPTER SIX 1. How do the children plan to spend Dill s last night in Maycomb? 2. What goes wrong with the children s escape plan? 3. At whom does Mr. Nathan think he has fired his gun? 4. How do the children claim to have spent the evening? 5. What makes Jem decide to return to the Radley yard that night?

3 CHAPTER SEVEN 1. What does Jem tell Scout about that night at Boo Radley s? (think pants) 2. What new gifts do they find in the knothole? (There are five). 3. What do Jem and Scout realize about the soap figures they find in the knot hole? 4. What ends the knothole gifts? 5. What does Atticus tell Jem about the tree? 1. Who dies this winter? CHAPTER EIGHT 2. What aberration of nature frightens Scout? 3. What method does Jem devise to make a snowman? 4. When Maudie s house begins to burn, what other possibility is the Finch family worried about? 5. Why doesn t Atticus help carry out Maudie s furniture? 6. What is placed on Scout to keep her warm? Who put it there? 7. What is Miss Maudie s reaction to the loss of her house? 1. Who is Tom Robinson? CHAPTER NINE 2. What gift does Uncle Jack give the children? 3. What new habit has Scout picked up that bothers Uncle Jack? 4. What does cousin Francis tell Scout about Dill s home life? 5. Why does Scout fight her cousin after the Christmas dinner at Finch Landing? 6. What is Maycomb s usual disease? 7. What does Atticus tell Jack he hopes Jem and Scout will do instead of listening to the town?

4 CHAPTER TEN 1. In Scout s eyes, what is Atticus s chief fault? 2. What crisis shows the children a surprising skill their father possesses? 3. What is Atticus s skill? 4. Who is Heck Tate? 5. What is Atticus s old nickname? 6. How does Jem feel when Scout says she s going to tell everyone at school about Atticus? CHAPTER ELEVEN 1. What makes the children hate and fear Mrs. Dubose? 2. What does Atticus do that causes Scout to say she feels he is the bravest man who ever lived? 3. What does Jem do to get revenge against Mrs. Dubose? 4. What is his punishment? 5. How does Atticus explain the term nigger-lover to Scout? 6. What does Mrs. Dubose vow to do before she died? 7. How does Atticus explain courage to Jem? CHAPTER TWELVE 1. Why doesn t Dill plan to come to Maycomb this summer? 2. Explain what Scout finds unusual about Calpurnia s manner of speaking at the Negro church. 3. What is the purpose of this Sunday s collection at First Purchase African Methodist Episcopal Church? 4. Why are Jem and Scout so welcomed in this church? 5. Why does the congregation sing the hymns by lining?

5 6. Why can t Helen Robinson get work? CHAPTER THIRTEEN and CHAPTER FOURTEEN 1. Why has Aunt Alexandra come to Maycomb? 2. Why does Aunt Alexandra get angry with Atticus? 3. What does Atticus tell the children about being Finch family? 4. When Aunt Alexandra finds out that Jem and Scout have attended Cal s church, what does she want Atticus to do? 5. What solution does Atticus offer to the problem of Dill s presence? CHAPTER FIFTEEN 1. Why have the neighbors gathered in Scout's front yard? 2. Who is Mr. Underwood? 3. Where do the children find Atticus at ten o clock on Sunday evening? 4. What does the mob intend to do? 5. How does Scout manage to end the danger? 6. At the end of the chapter, who do we hear from for the first time in the novel? 7. What has Mr. Underwood been doing during the mob scene? CHAPTER SIXTEEN 1. In the eyes of the community, what is Dolphus Raymond s problem? 2. Why isn t Miss Maudie going to court? 3. What fact about Atticus s defense of Tom Robinson does Scout learn from the Idler s club? 4. Where do the children sit for the trial? What does this action indicate to the reader?

6 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 1. What question does Atticus ask the sheriff three times? 2. During the discussion of Mayella s injuries, what key fact seems important to Atticus? 3. What detail in the description of the Ewell home makes the reader guess that perhaps Mayella is different from the rest of her family? 4. Why does Atticus ask Mr. Ewell to write his name? CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 1. Why does Mayella break into tears at the beginning of her testimony? 2. What makes Mayella think Atticus is mocking her? 3. What does this tell you about her? 4. What dramatic fact do we learn about Tom Robinson at the end of Mayella s testimony? 5. Atticus is trying to get Mayella to make a confession. What does he want her to admit? CHAPTER NINETEEN 1. According to Tom s story, when did he bust up the chiffarobe? 2. On the day of Tom s crime, where are the seven Ewell children? 3. When Mr. Ewell arrives on the scene, what does he see through the window that infuriates him? 4. Who is Link Deas? What (unsolicited) comment does he add to the proceedings? 5. What two points does Mr. Gilmer try to make in cross-examining Tom? CHAPTER TWENTY 1. What aspect of Mr. Raymond s reputation do the children find to be false? 2. Why is he willing to let the children in on his secret?

7 3. What does Atticus say is the worst thing you can do? 4. What crime does Atticus say Mayella feels guilt of? 5. What facts about Negroes does Mr. Ewell rely on to make the jury bring in a guilty verdict? CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE and CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 1. Why has Cal come to court? 2. How long is the jury out? 3. How does Scout know Tom is not acquitted (found guilty) even before the jury reports? 4. What happens as Atticus leaves the courtroom? 5. What does Atticus find in the kitchen on the morning after the trial? 6. What is the feeling among the white neighbors on Atticus s defeat? 7. What has Dill decided to be when he grows up? Why? 8. What is Bob Ewell s response to the verdict? CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 1. What are the children worried about at the beginning of the chapter? 2. Where is Tom Robinson in this chapter? 3. How does Atticus define trash? How does Aunt Alexandra? 4. Why does Aunt Alexandra not want Walter Cunningham in the house, even though the Cunninghams are admittedly good folks? 5. What conclusion does Jem come to about Boo Radley? CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 1. What does the business part of the Missionary Society consist of? 2. Why does Scout prefer the world of men to the world in which fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water?

8 3. Who are the hypocrites Mrs. Merriweather mentions? 4. Why does she consider them hypocrites? 5. What news does Atticus bring to Aunt Alexandra, Maudie and Scout? 6. How does Atticus explain what Tom had done? CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE and CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX 1. What causes Scout to comment that Jem is acting more like a girl every day? 2. How does Scout learn about Helen s reaction to the news about Tom? 3. Mr. Ewell said (about Tom) one down and about two more to go. What does he mean by the comment? 4. Although she thinks it has escaped his notice, Scout learns in this chapter that Atticus has known of one of her crimes all along. Which one? 5. What has Scout overheard that confuses her about Miss Gates s view about Hitler? CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 1. Who does Bob Ewell blame for his loss at the WPA job? 2. What happened at Judge Taylor s house? 3. What two services does Link Deas perform for Helen Robinson because he felt right about the way things turned out? 4. What event has been added to the fall social calendar in Maycomb? 5. What is Scout s Halloween costume? What are its chief drawbacks? CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 1. Who scares the Finch children on the way to the pageant? 2. How does Scout s performance go? 3. What is the first clue the children have that they are not alone on their walk home? 4. Who are the four people under the tree?

9 5. How does Jem get home? 6. What question does Scout ask again and again? 7. Who is the children s attacker? How did he die? CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE, CHAPTER THIRTY and CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE 1. What unexpected advantage did Scout s costume supply? 2. What does Boo really look like? 3. Who ACTUALLY killed Bob Ewell? 4. What was the murder weapon? 5. What does the switchblade Heck Tate uses for demonstration have to do with all of this? 6. Describe the manner in which Scout escorts Boo home. 7. What do you learn about the plot of The Gray Ghost?