To+Kill+a+Mockingbird+Review

=//To Kill A Mockingbird Review//=

Some of the themes in the novel are:

Growing up is hard and children lose their innocence Racism makes people act cruelly towards others People can act in courageous ways, especially in hard times Loneliness can make people make foolish choices

Complete the sentence to create a plot summary of the novel. Your answers need to make grammatically correct sentences.
 * Chronolog****:**

Part I

1) Jem and Scout meet _ 2) Jem raids _ __3) Scout starts__ 4) Jem and Scout find 5) Nathan Radley shoots _ 6) Nathan Radley seals _ __7) Fire destroys__ _ __8) The community criticizes__ 9) Atticus shoots _ __10) Mrs. Dubose teaches__

Part II

11) Aunt Alexandra comes 12) Scout’s innocence prevents _ 13) Jem, Scout, and Dill attend _ 14) Atticus cross-examines _ 15) Tom Robinson reveals _ 16) The jury decides __17) Bob Ewell threatens__ _ 18) Atticus reports 19) Mr. Underwood compares _ 20) Bob Ewell harasses 21) Bob Ewell attacks _ 22) Boo Radley kills __23) Scout meets__ 24) Heck, Atticus and Scout decide _ 25) Scout views __

1) When the routine of Jem, Scout, and Dill’s summer becomes tiresome, what idea does Dill have?
 * Reading** **questions**:
 * Chapter 1**

2) How had Mr. Radley seen to it that his younger son Arthur (Boo) caused “no further trouble” in Maycomb?

3) When Scout tries to spare Walter Cunningham any further humiliation, what does Miss Caroline do to her?
 * Chapters 2 & 3**

4) At the Finch’s for lunch, what reason does Walter give Atticus for not being able to pass the first grade?

5) After Calpurnia makes Scout leave the table, what “lecture” does she give Scout? What social role is Calpurnia serving in for Scout?

6) After Scout begs Atticus not to make her return to school, what advice does he give her for getting along with people?

7) What is the neighborhood’s opinion of Mrs. Dubose?
 * Chapters 4 & 5**

8) What does Jem say about the “Indianheads” they find in the knothole of the tree?

9) What does Miss Maudie tell Scout about some kind of men?

10) What is Jem and Dill’s plan to contact Boo Radley?

=**Chapters 6 & 7**= 11) How does Dill explain Jem’s missing pants?

12) Summarize Scout’s assessment of second grade.

13) What does Jem finally tell Scout about his pants that he retrieved?

14) What do Jem and Scout realize about the carved soap figures they find in the knothole of the tree?

15) Describe how Jem constructs his “snowman.” What compliment does Atticus pay Jem?
 * Chapter 8**

16) Why does Atticus wake the children in the middle of the night?

17) What is Scout wearing? How does Atticus explain the presence of what Scout is wearing?

18) What is Miss Maudie’s reaction to the loss of her house?

19) What does Atticus tell Scout to do when she hears “ugly talk” at school?
 * Chapter 9**

20) Why does Scout fight Francis?

21) What does Atticus tell Jack he hopes Jem and Scout will do instead of listening to the town?

=**Chapter 10**= 22) Atticus tells the children they’re not to kill mockingbirds because doing so is a sin. How does Miss Maudie explain Atticus’ reasoning to Scout?

23) Why does the sheriff ask Atticus to shoot Tim Johnson? (Who/what is Tim Johnson)?

24) What explanation does Miss Maudie offer for “Ol One-Shot” (Atticus) putting his gun down thirty years ago?

25) What does Jem to do Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes? Explain why he does this.
 * Chapter 11**

26) What does Mrs. Dubose want from Jem as payment for his “crime?”

27) How does Atticus explain the term “nigger-lover” to Scout?

28) How does Atticus explain “courage” to Jem?

=**Chapter 12**= 29) Explain what Scout finds unusual about Calpurnia’s manner of speaking at the Negro church.

30) Why does Reverend Sykes order the doors of the church shut?

31) Why does the congregation sing hymns by “lining?”

32) How does Atticus explain Aunt Alexandra’s arrival?
 * Chapters 13 & 14**

33) What does Aunt Alexandra request that Atticus try to convey to the children?

34) How does Atticus respond to Alexandra’s suggestion that they don’t need Calpurnia anymore?

35) After Atticus leaves the house at night, where do the children find him? What is he doing?
 * Chapter 15**

36) After Scout talks to Mr. Cunningham about Walter and the entailment of his farm, what does he do?

37) What had Mr. Underwood been doing at this time?

38) How does Atticus explain “mobs” to the children?
 * Chapter 16**

39) What is Maudie’s reaction to everyone wanting to go to the trial?

40) What news does Scout overhear about Atticus defending Tom Robinson? Does it give her any comfort? Why or why not?

41) With whom do the children sit in the courtroom?

=**Chapters 17 & 18**= 42) What question does Atticus ask the sheriff three times?

43) What does Atticus lead Sheriff Tate to remember about Mayella Ewell’s black eye?

44) Explain what Atticus is attempting to show by asking Mr. Ewell to write something.

45) Why does Mayella think Atticus is mocking her?

46) Identify what Tom says Mayella did to him while he was 1. standing on the chair, 2. after he got off the chair, and 3. afterward.
 * Chapters 19 & 20**

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47) What mistake does Tom make when Mr. Gilmer is asking him to explain why he helped Mayella? Why is this a mistake?

48) How does Mr. Raymond explain his pretense about drinking?

49) What, according to Atticus, is the one thing in the country that makes everyone equal.

50) What is Reverend Sykes’ response to Jem’s certainty that the jury will find Tom innocent?
 * Chapters 21 & 22**

51) What is Atticus’s response to Alexandra’s attempt to say the children shouldn’t have witnessed the trial?

52) What does Miss Maudie say about Atticus’s ability to have kept the jury out for so long?

53) What had Bob Ewell done to Atticus?

=**Chapter 23-24**= 54) How does Atticus explain the fact that women can’t serve on juries in Alabama?

55) How does Atticus explain his decision to have allowed Mr. Cunningham to sit on the jury?

56) What conclusion does Jem come to about Boo Radley?

57) What is Miss Stephanie’s advice to Scout about becoming a lady?

58) What news does Atticus bring about Tom Robinson?

59) How does Atticus explain what Tom did?

=**Chapters 25-27**= 60) What does Mr. Underwood say in his editorial?

61) What conclusion does Scout come to about Tom after reading Mr. Underwood’s article?

62) What historical figure does Miss Gates condemn? Why does her condemnation confuse Scout?

63) Why does Judge Taylor have a shotgun on his lap when his wife comes home from church?

64) Why was Helen Robinson walking a mile out of her way to get to her job?

=**Chapter 28**= 65) How does Scout know the body she touches is not Jem’s?

66) What, according to Dr. Reynolds, is Jem’s condition?

67) Who is in Jem’s room besides Scout, Atticus, and Alexandra?

68) What news does Sheriff Tate give Atticus?

=**Chapter 29-31**= 69) According to the Sheriff, what kind of man was Bob Ewell?

70) When Scout points to the man who saved Jem and looks at him closely, what does she realize? What does she do and say?

71) Who does Atticus think killed Bob Ewell?

72) What does the Sheriff say about Bob Ewell’s death?

73) After Scout takes Boo home, what makes her sad?

74) As Scout tells Atticus the story of the Gray Ghost, what does she say about Stoner’s Boy? What is Atticus’s response?

To Kill A Mockingbird