CHAPTER 8: Connection Questions
1.
What does this suggest about their relationship?
2.
universe of obligation includes the circle of individuals and groups toward
whom obligations are owed, to whom rules apply, and whose injuries call
3.
4.
the gossip and legend about the Radleys that the children spread?
5.
misconceptions about Boo? Find evidence in the chapter to support your
CHAPTER 9: Connection Questions
1.
to gender roles?
2.
play in her father’s life because she is a girl? How does her repetition
of the metaphor help establish her tone and indicate her feelings about
3.
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4.
such a powerful insult?
5.
from it?
6.
7.
8.
expect the case will turn out?
9.
Robinson as reason enough to end any friendships? How can you respond
CHAPTER 10: Connection Questions
1.
Robinson reinforce those feelings?
2.
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3.
evidence to support or refute your hypothesis as you read the rest of the
4.
the importance of the events that follow?
5. What does it mean to be a “man”? Based on your reading of this chapter,
6.
7.
CHAPTER 11: Connection Questions
1.
against his raising? When is “going against your raising” a good thing?
When is it bad?
2.
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3.
him?
4.
5.
courage at the beginning of this section? How does
6.
what he believes is the wrong idea about courage? Which characters in
the novel so far display courage?
7.
respond?
conscience at the beginning of this section? How
8.
chapter? What does it mean to be able to live with one’s self?
9.
he answer the accusation?
10.
real damage?
AFTER READING SECTION 3: Connection Questions
1.
he will defend in court, Tom Robinson?
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2.
narrator, is
3.
4.
responses tell you about her character?
5.
the way we view gender roles today? How are they similar?
6. How does race complicate the circumstances of the characters we have
met so far? What role does Calpurnia play in the Finch family? What
authority does she have in the Finch household that she might not have
7.
8.
How does it connect to one of the major themes of To Kill a Mockingbird?
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