Gender

Question 1

Imagined

Answer 1

‘Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so’

Question 2

Do Nothing

Answer 2

‘I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants.’

Question 3

Acting Right

Answer 3

‘It’s time you started bein’ a girl and acting right!’

Question 4

Takes a Woman

Answer 4

‘I now know what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man, It takes a woman to do that kind of work.’

Question 5

Fragile

Answer 5

‘she seemed somehow fragile-looking, but when she sat facing us in the witness-chair she became what she was, a thick-bodies girl accustomed to strenuous labour.’

Question 6

Frail

Answer 6

‘I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom’s.’

Question 7

Father’s World

Answer 7

‘But I was more at home in my father’s world. People like Mr Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you’

Question 8

Hypocrites

Answer 8

‘no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them that I instinctively liked…they weren’t-’ ‘Hypocrites’