Literature - To Kill A Mockingbird Flashcards
Page 12: Calpurnia’s “hand was wide as a ___ and twice as hard.”
bed slat
Calpurnia disciplined the children.
Page 11: “Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, ___, and treated us with courteous detachment.”
read to us
Atticus was a typical father.
Page 12: Calpurnia’s “hand was wide as a bed slat and ___.”
twice as hard
Calpurnia disciplined the children.
Page 11: “Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he ___, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.”
played with us
Atticus was a typical father.
Page 12: “[Calpurnia] was always ordering [Scout] out of the ___”
kitchen
Page 12: “[Calpurnia] was always ___ Scout out of the kitchen”
ordering
Page 12: “she was always ordering [Scout] out of the kitchen” and “___ when [she] wasn’t ready to come.”
calling [her] home
Page 12: Arthur Radley was an “___ the mere description of whom it was enough to make [the children] behave for days on end”.
unknown entity
Page 11: “Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with ___.”
courteous detachment
Atticus was a typical father.
Page 11: “Jem and I found our father ____: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.”
satisfactory
Atticus was a typical father.
“Our mother died when I was ___”
two
Calpurnia could be said to have filled in the role of mother to the children.
Page 12: Arthur Radley was an “unknown entity the mere description of whom it was enough to ___”.
make [the children] behave if days on end
The children were afraid of Arthur.
Page 16: Stephanie Crawford was a “neighbourhood scold, who said ___” regarding Boo Radley’s alleged stabbing of his father.
she knew the whole thing
Page 12: “she was always ordering [Scout] out of the kitchen” and “calling [her] home when [she] ___.”
wasn’t ready to come
When Scout comes home from her first day at school, Cal says, “I missed you today. The house got so ___”
lonesome
Calpurnia is affectionate.
Page 12: “Mrs Dubose was ___.”
plain hell
Page 30: “when she was furious Calpurnia’s grammar became erratic. When in tranquillity, her grammar was ___.”
as good as anybody’s in Maycomb
Page 14: Boo Radley is described as a “___”. (“Inside the house lived a ___.”
malevolent phantom
Page 16: Stephanie Crawford was a “___, who said she knew the whole thing” regarding Boo Radley’s alleged stabbing of his father.
neighbourhood scold
A neighborhood scold is a busybody who knows everything and is critical of everyone.
Page 35: After Scout’s first day at school, Calpurnia “___”.
bent down and kissed [her]
Affectionate
Page 18: Calpurnia “rarely commented on ___.”
the ways of white people
Page 30: “when she was furious Calpurnia’s grammar became ___. When in tranquillity, her grammar was as good as anybody’s in Maycomb.”
erratic
Page 12: Arthur Radley was an “unknown entity the ___ of whom it was enough to make [the children] behave if days on end”.
mere description
The children were afraid of Arthur.
Page 31: Atticus says that the Finch family “couldn’t ___ without Cal”
operate a single day
Page 34: When Scout comes home from her first day at school, Cal says, “___”
I missed you today
Calpurnia is affectionate.
