Parent/Child Relationships

Question 1

Hunger Pains

Answer 1

‘It’s against the law, all right… and it’s certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief cheques on green whisky his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.’

Question 2

Whipped

Answer 2

‘Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I could remember. I wanta keep it that way.’

Question 3

Screams

Answer 3

‘My scream brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven.’ ‘A flash of plain fear’

Question 4

Rarely Asked

Answer 4

‘Atticus so rarely asked Jem and me to do something for him, I could take being called a coward for him.’

Question 5

Grandma Said

Answer 5

‘Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he’s turned out to be a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again. He’s ruining the family, that’s what he’s doing.’

Question 6

Blessed Thing

Answer 6

‘Atticus is real old, but I wouldn’t care if he couldn’t do anything - I wouldn’t care if he couldn’t do a blessed thing.’

Question 7

Hear Every Word

Answer 7

‘it was not until many years later that I realised he wanted me to hear every word he said.’

Question 8

Eye/Voice

Answer 8

‘Atticus turned his head and pinned me to the wall with his good eye. His voice was deadly.’

Question 9

Interested

Answer 9

‘they just wasn’t interested in me..they do get on a lot better without me’

Question 10

Connived

Answer 10

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him…if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn’t meet his eye’

Question 11

Mind me

Answer 11

He didn’t mind me much the way I was