Chapter 2

Question 1

Dill left soon after that to go back to

Answer 1

Meridian, and it was time for Scout to go to school for the first time.

Question 2

She had been waiting her whole life to go to school, but it turned out to be a great disappointment. Miss Caroline, Scout’s very young first grade teacher from North Alabama, was surprised to find that

Answer 2

Scout could read very well and even write in cursive.

Question 3

Rather than being proud of her or excited about such a bright pupil, Miss Caroline told Scout that she was not allowed to read with her father anymore because

Answer 3

Atticus didn’t know how to teach. Scout was crushed.

Question 4

Then, just before lunch, Scout tried to helpfully explain to Miss Caroline that

Answer 4

Walter Cunningham did not have a lunch with him because he was poor.

Question 5

Scout knew that because Miss Caroline wasn’t from Maycomb she wouldn’t understand that Walter couldn’t take the quarter she kept offering him because

Answer 5

the Cunningham’s didn’t borrow what they couldn’t pay back.

Question 6

Scout was educated on the Cunningham’s particular situation because Atticus had once helped Walter’s father with a legal matter pertaining to his land, and Mr. Cunningham had paid Atticus with

Answer 6

farm goods rather than money.

Question 7

Miss Caroline, however, thought Scout was just being rude, so she

Answer 7

swatted her hand with a ruler and made her stand in the corner. Scout was exiled there until the lunch bell rang.