To Kill a Mockingbird
GUIDED READING QUESTIONS
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Complete your Guided Reading Questions on lined paper or in your Writer’s Notebook.
Be sure to write in complete sentences and cite the page where you found the answer.
Guided Reading Questions must be completed on the same due date as the reading.
CHAPTER 1
1. Who are Scout, Jem and Dill?
2. Explain the Radley family background.
3. What does Dill dare Jem to do?
CHAPTER 2
4. Who is Miss Caroline?
5. Why doesn’t Walter Cunningham have a lunch?
6. For what 2 reasons does Scout get in trouble?
CHAPTER 3
7. Why does Scout get in trouble at lunch?
8. Describe Burris Ewell.
9. What compromise does Atticus make?
CHAPTER 4
10.
What does Scout find in the knothole of the tree?
11.
Describe the game the children invest.
CHAPTER 5
12.
With whom does Scout develop a friendship?
13.
What does Scout learn about Boo Radley?
14.
What are Jem and Dill planning to do?
CHAPTER 6
15.
What are Jem and Dill planning for Dill’s last day in Maycomb?
16.
Explain what happens to Jem’s pants.
CHAPTER 7
17.
What else do they find in the tree?
18.
What happens to the knothole?
CHAPTER 8
19.
Why is school cancelled?
20.
What does Jem build in the yard?
21.
What happens to Miss Maudie’s house?
22.
What unusual event happens to protect Scout from the cold?
CHAPTER 9
23.
With whom does Scout fight and why?
24.
What do the kids get for Christmas?
25.
Why does Scout get in trouble at Christmas while at Finch’s landing?
26.
What does Scout explain to Uncle Jack?
CHAPTER 10
27.
Who is Tim Johnson?
28.
What did Jem and Scout find out about Atticus that was surprising?
CHAPTER 11
29.
Describe Mrs. Dubose.
30.
What caused Jem to lose his temper? What is his punishment?
31.
What does Atticus reveal about Mrs. Dubose?
32.
Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird?
CHAPTER 12
33.
Where do the kids go with Calpurnia?
34.
What is “lining”?
35.
What does Scout learn about the trial?
36.
What does Calpurnia teach Scout about language and manners?
CHAPTER 13
37.
Who is waiting for the children when they get home?
38.
About what does Aunt Alexandra try to teach the children?
39.
What qualities make “fine folks” according to Scout? What about Aunt
Alexander?
CHAPTER 14
40.
What must Atticus explain to Scout?
41.
What does Scout find under her bed?
42.
How does Jem break the “code of childhood”?
CHAPTER 15
43.
What does Heck Tate tell Atticus?
44.
Why do the children sneak out of the house?
45.
How does Scout break up the lynch mob?
CHAPTER 16
46.
Describe Dolphus Raymond.
47.
Where do the kids sit for the trial?
CHAPTER 17
48.
Summarize Heck Tate’s testimony.
49.
Describe Bob Ewell’s appearance and attitude.
50.
Is Bob Ewell right-handed or left-handed?
CHAPTER 18
51.
Describe Mayella Ewell.
52.
Who spots the children in the courtroom?
53.
What does Atticus suggest really happened to Mayella?
54.
What is significant about Tom Robinson’s arm?
CHAPTER 19
55.
What is Tom Robinson’s version of the events?
56.
What is the HUGE mistake Tom makes in his testimony?
57.
Why does Dill cry?
CHAPTER 20
58.
Why does Dolphus Raymond pretend to be a drunk?
59.
What is the case “as simple as” in Atticus’ opinion?
CHAPTER 21
60.
Why does Calpurnia come to the courtroom?
61.
What is the verdict of the trial?
62.
What happens as Atticus leaves the courtroom?
CHAPTER 22
63.
What does Miss Maudie explain to the kids?
64.
What did Bob Ewell do to Atticus?
CHAPTER 23
65.
What does Atticus explain to Jem about Bob Ewell?
66.
What makes a white man “trash” according to Atticus?
67.
Why did Atticus want Mr. Cunningham to be a juror?
68.
What four kinds of folks does Jem think there are? How many does Scout
think there are?
CHAPTER 24
69.
What is the subject of the ladies’ missionary society meeting?
70.
Who puts an end to the rude discussion about the Robinson trial?
71.
What does Atticus tell Aunt Alexandra and Miss Maudie in the kitchen?
72.
What kind of man is Atticus according to Miss Maudie?
CHAPTER 25
73.
Where did the children go with Atticus? What is the purpose of the visit?
74.
What does Mr. Underwood say about Tom Robinson in his newspaper?
CHAPTER 26
75.
What is the subject of Miss Gates’ discussion in Scout’s class?
76.
What is ironic about it?
CHAPTER 27
77.
Who did Bob Ewell blame for losing his job on the WPA?
78.
What odd thing happened to Judge Taylor?
79.
What is Scout’s costume for the Halloween pageant?
CHAPTER 28
80.
What do the children hear in the trees on the way to school for the
pageant?
81.
Why do Scout and Jem wait to leave the school until almost everyone is
gone?
82.
What happens to the kids on their way home?
83.
How does Jem get home?
84.
Who died?
CHAPTER 29
85.
Who does Atticus think is the killer?
86.
Who is in the corner of the bedroom?
CHAPTER 30
87.
What does Heck Tate say about the incident that occurs in this chapter?
(Who was involved, what happened, and who does Tate put the blame on?)
88.
Why does Scout agree with Sheriff Tate?
CHAPTER 31
89.
Where does Scout stand that allows her to “stand in someone’s shoes” for
a moment? What does she “see”?