To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Chapters 1-4 Study Questions
1.
What is the setting of the novel?
2.
Who is inside the Radley house whom the children
torment?
3.
Why is Scout’s first-grade teacher angry with Scout?
4.
On the first day of school, who did not have lunch or
money? What did Scout do about it?
5.
What was in the tree the first time? The second time?
6.
What was Dill’s most outstanding characteristic?
7.
What new game did the kids invent?
Chapters 1-4 Study Questions
1.
What is the setting of the novel?
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2.
Who is inside the Radley house whom the children
torment?
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3.
Arthur/Boo
Why is Scout’s first-grade teacher angry with Scout?
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4.
Maycomb County, Alabama
She can read and write
On the first day of school, who did not have lunch or
money? What did Scout do about it?
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Walter Cunningham; Scout invited him over
Chapters 1-4 Study Questions
5.
What was in the tree the first time? The second time?
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6.
What was Dill’s most outstanding characteristic?
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7.
Chewing gum; 2 Indian-head pennies
His vivid imagination
What new game did the kids invent?
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Boo Radley
Chapters 5-10 Study Questions
1.
What are Baptist Footwashers?
2.
What all happened to Jem’s pants?
3.
What was in the tree the next few times? What kind of
person would appreciate these items?
4.
What happened to the knot in the tree and why?
5.
Why does Scout cuss?
6.
What do Jem and Scout get for Christmas? What were
they not allowed to shoot?
7.
What was Atticus’ nickname?
8.
Why hadn’t Atticus shot a gun in over 30 years?
Chapters 5-10 Study Questions
1.
What are Baptist Footwashers?
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2.
What all happened to Jem’s pants?
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3.
They got caught on the Radley’s fence, then when Jem
went back to get them, they were folded and sewn
What was in the tree the next few times? What kind of
person would appreciate these items?
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4.
Baptists who think anything pleasurable is a sin
A ball of twine; soap carvings; a spelling medal; a child
What happened to the knot in the tree and why?
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Mr. Radley cemented it up because the tree “was dying,”
but really it was to prevent Boo from communicating with
the kids
Chapters 5-10 Study Questions
5.
Why does Scout cuss?
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6.
What do Jem and Scout get for Christmas? What were
they not allowed to shoot?
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7.
Air rifles; mockingbirds
What was Atticus’ nickname?
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8.
She thinks if she tells Atticus she learned to cuss at
school, then he won’t send her anymore
One-Shot Finch
Why hadn’t Atticus shot a gun in over 30 years?
 He disapproves of violence and he thinks it gives him an
unfair advantage over other living things
Chapters 11-15 Study Questions
1.
What is Jem’s punishment for destroying Mrs. Dubose’s
camellia bushes?
2.
What happens at the end of the first session?
3.
Why does Atticus think Mrs. Dubose is a brave woman?
4.
For what did Calpurnia’s church take up a collection?
5.
Who does Aunt Alexandra think Atticus should “do
something about?”
6.
Why does Jem get Atticus when they discovered Dill under
the bed?
7.
Why do the men stand in the front yard at Atticus’ house?
8.
What does Scout say to Mr. Cunningham?
9.
Why did Mr. Cunningham call off the lynch mob?
Chapters 11-15 Study Questions
1.
What is Jem’s punishment for destroying Mrs. Dubose’s
camellia bushes?
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2.
What happens at the end of the first session?
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3.
She overcame her addiction to pain killers
For what did Calpurnia’s church take up a collection?
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5.
She is drooling, her head is moving back and forth and her
mouth makes weird noises
Why does Atticus think Mrs. Dubose is a brave woman?
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4.
He has to read to her every day for two hours
Tom Robinson’s family
Who does Aunt Alexandra think Atticus should “do
something about?”
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Calpurnia
Chapters 11-15 Study Questions
6.
Why does Jem get Atticus when they discovered Dill under
the bed?
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7.
Why do the men stand in the front yard at Atticus’ house?
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8.
They were worried about Tom Robinson being moved to the
county jailhouse
What does Scout say to Mr. Cunningham?
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9.
He is starting to be responsible and think like Atticus would
She reminds him she and Jem had invited his son over for a
meal and that Atticus had helped him in the past
Why did Mr. Cunningham call off the lynch mob?
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To repay Scout for feeding Walter and Atticus for helping him
Chapters 16-20 Study Questions
1.
What is believed Dolphus is drinking from the paper
bag? What did he really drink? Why?
2.
Who were the jurors? Why?
3.
Where do Scout, Jem and Dill sit in the courtroom?
4.
Which eye on the Ewell girl was bruised? Where were
her other bruises? Why does Atticus emphasize these
points?
5.
Why didn’t Mr. Ewell call a doctor for his daughter?
6.
What was wrong with Tom Robinson’s left arm?
7.
What was Tom’s and Mayella’s relationship like before
the arrest/trial?
Chapters 16-20 Study Questions
1.
What is believed Dolphus is drinking from the paper
bag? What did he really drink? Why?
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2.
Who were the jurors? Why?
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3.
Whiskey; coca cola; people need to think there is
something wrong with him (like being a drunk) in order to
accept him having a mixed-race family
Farmers; the townsfolk were either struck or excused
Where do Scout, Jem and Dill sit in the courtroom?
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In the balcony with the Negroes
Chapters 16-20 Study Questions
4.
Which eye on the Ewell girl was bruised? Where were her
other bruises? Why does Atticus emphasize these points?
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5.
Why didn’t Mr. Ewell call a doctor for his daughter?
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6.
He never had, and it would have cost him money
What was wrong with Tom Robinson’s left arm?
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7.
Her right; all around her neck; to show that Tom Robinson
was incapable of inflicting the bruises
It was 12 inches shorter than his right and ended in a
shriveled hand because it had been caught in a cotton gin
What was Tom’s and Mayella’s relationship like before the
arrest/trial?
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He did odd jobs/manual labor for her from time to time for
free
Chapters 21-31 Study Questions
1.
What was the jury’s verdict?
2.
What was Jem’s reaction to the verdict? Why? What
theme of the novel does his reaction reflect?
3.
What did Current Events teach Scout?
4.
What comments by Ms. Gates trouble Scout? Why?
5.
In the Halloween pageant, what character/part did Scout
play?
6.
What saved Scout’s life?
7.
Who saved Jem and Scout?
8.
What did Heck Tate say happened to Bob Ewell? What
does Atticus think happened to him? What really
happened to him?
9.
What lesson does Scout learn from The Gray Ghost? What
does Atticus say about that?
Chapters 21-31 Study Questions
1.
What was the jury’s verdict?
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2.
What was Jem’s reaction to the verdict? Why? What
theme of the novel does his reaction reflect?
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3.
He cried; he was despaired that people would choose to do
the wrong thing; childhood’s loss of innocence
What did Current Events teach Scout?
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4.
guilty
Hitler was persecuting Jews
What comments by Ms. Gates trouble Scout? Why?
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She laments Hitler’s treatment of Jews, saying in a democracy
like the US, we don’t believe in persecuting anybody but at
the courthouse after the trial, she said the verdict was good
because “they were getting way above themselves.”
;hypocrisy
Chapters 21-31 Study Questions
5.
In the Halloween pageant, what character/part did Scout play?
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6.
What saved Scout’s life?
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7.
Arthur “Boo” Radley
What did Heck Tate say happened to Bob Ewell? What does
Atticus think happened to him? What really happened to him?
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9.
Her costume
Who saved Jem and Scout?

8.
A ham
He fell on his own knife; Jem stabbed Bob Ewell; Boo Radley
stabbed Bob Ewell
What lesson does Scout learn from The Gray Ghost? What does
Atticus say about that?
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When people finally saw Stoner’s Boy, they realized he was not
guilty and in fact was really nice; Most people are nice, when you
see them