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Study tips for quick quiz check: ch. 12, 13, and 14.
I.
Calpurnia.
Describe Calpurnia.
What happens when she takes the kids to her church?
Who welcomes the kids and who does not?
How does Calpurnia speak at church and why?
Is Calpurnia more or less educated than her African American friends?
What does Atticus think of Calpurnia? (look at the beginning of ch. 13)
II.
Describe Aunt Alexandra.
What is she like? What does she focus on the most?
Explain why she comes to live with Scout’s family.
Atticus and Aunt Alexandra argue about a few things in chapters 13 and 14. Describe and
explain.
Does Aunt Alexandra gossip?
Does she ‘fit in’ in Maycomb?
III.
DILL
Describe Dill Harris and his home life.
Dill has two stories about his home life. Figure out which one is true vs. a story.
Explain why he ends up at the Finch household in Chapter 14.
Who tells Atticus that Dill is in the house?
IV.
JEM.
Describe Jem.
Give evidence from the story that he is growing up.
How does Jem break what Scout calls ‘the last code of childhood?’
What does Calpurnia start to call Jem? Why?
Character traits: Look at the following traits and pick out which traits could be used to
describe the above characters. (some will not be used for any)
Obese
storyteller
good friend
imaginative
shy
mean contemptuous
Unfriendly
neglected
quick thinker provincial
gossipy
devout
Nurturing
unladylike
rude uneducated
focused on reputation
Outcast
quiet
focused on honesty
preoccupied with heredity mannerly