To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter 11
Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What does Mrs. Dubose say about the children's father? How does Jem feel
about this?
2. What does Jem use to destroy Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes? How does
Atticus punish him?
3. What does Atticus require Jem to do at Mrs. Dubose’s request? Is this a fair
punishment for his “crime”?
4. What does Scout eventually realize about the alarm clock at Mrs. Dubose’s
house? What was Mrs. Dubose addicted to?
5. What was the real reason that Atticus required Jem to read to Mrs. Dubose?
6. What does Atticus tell the children about Mrs. Dubose after her death?
7. What effect does the looming Robinson trial have on the Finch’s relations with
their relatives and neighbors?
8. Why, in Atticus's view, was Mrs. Dubose “a great lady”?
9. Atticus says that Mrs. Dubose is a model of real courage rather than “a man
with a gun in his hand.” What does he mean? Do you think he is right?
10. Chapters ten and eleven are the last two chapters in the first part of the
book. Explain why Harper Lee chooses to end the first part here.