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Study Guide – To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 5-7
I.
VOCABULARY
Chapter 5
benevolence (n)
benign (adj)
cordiality (n)
inquisitive (adj)
placidly (adv)
morbid (adj)
Chapter 6
dismember (v)
ensuing (adj)
malignant (adj)
prowess (n)
rigid (adj)
waning (adj)
Chapter 7
meditative (adj)
palate (n)
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render (v)
vigil (n)
II.
LITERARY TERMS AND EXAMPLES – Define and apply the following terms to this story.
round character
example(s)
flat character
example(s)
dynamic character
example(s)
static character
example(s)
ambiguity
example
irony
example
III.
QUESTIONS AND ANALYSIS – Answer the following questions using complete sentences
and correct punctuation.
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1. Describe Miss Maudie Atkinson? How typical is she of Maycomb's women?
2. What do the children think of her?
3. What does Miss Maudie tell Scout about Boo?
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4. How does this compare with what Scout already believes?
5. Scout claims that “Dill could tell the biggest ones ” (lies) she ever heard. Why might Dill
have told such lies?
6. What reasons does Atticus give for the children not to play the Boo Radley game?
7. Do you think Atticus is right? Why?
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8. Why does Scout disapprove of Jem's and Dill's plan of looking in at one of the Radleys'
windows?
9. What does Mr. Nathan Radley know about the intruders in his garden?
10. Why does Miss Stephanie refer to a “negro” over whose head Mr. Nathan has fired?
11. Why does Dill's explanation of Jem's state of dress almost land him in trouble?
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12. When Jem tells Scout about getting his trousers back, he tells her of something strange. What
is this?
13. Can you find any evidence that Jem is beginning to understand more than Scout about Boo
Radley? What do you think this is?
14. Does Jem still fear the gifts in the tree? Give reasons for your answer.
15. When the children plan to send a letter to the person who leaves the gifts, who stops them?
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16. What happens that prevent them from leaving the letter?
17. Why might this have happened?
communication?
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What could have been the reason for stopping this