To Kill A Mockingbird Ch. 1-4

Question 1

Who is the narrator of the novel?

Answer 1

Scout (Ch. 1)

Question 2

What type of narration is used?

Answer 2

1st person (Ch. 1)

Question 3

What does Scout reveal about her family history in the first few pages?

Answer 3

• dad’s a lawyer
• wealthy
• uncle is a doctor
• been there for a while (Ch. 1)

Question 4

How does Scout describe the way she and her brother feel about their father?

Answer 4

He’s like a friend, they call him by his first name (Ch. 1)

Question 5

What happened to Scout and Jim’s mother?

Answer 5

Heart Attack (Ch. 1)

Question 6

Who is Calpurnia?

Answer 6

Servant/Babysitter (Ch. 1)

Question 7

How does Scout describe Calpurnia?

Answer 7

mean; like a mom (Ch. 1)

Question 8

What’s a simile Scout uses in her description of Calpurnia?

Answer 8

Hand as wide as a bed slat (Ch. 1)

Question 9

How do Jem and Scout meet Dill?

Answer 9

Saw him in the neighbor’s garden (Ch. 1)

Question 10

How does Scout describe Dill?

Answer 10

Short, puny (Ch. 1)

Question 11

What is frightening to the children about the Radley house?

Answer 11

Dark and Gloomy, Boo lives there (Ch. 1)

Question 12

What lives in the house according to Scout?

Answer 12

A Malevolent Phantom (Ch. 1)

Question 13

What is a rumor concerning the Radleys?

Answer 13

Terrorization of the townsfolk nightly. (Ch. 1)

Question 14

What shows the Radleys were falsely accused of the terrorization?

Answer 14

Crazy Eddie actually did it. (Ch. 1)

Question 15

What happened to the Radley family?

Answer 15

Arthur (more commonly known as Boo) hung out with the wrong crowd, and one night it got too wild. Instead of Boo going to jail, Mr. Radley kept him inside his whole life. One day Boo stabbed his dad in the leg with scissors and everything went downhill since. (Ch. 1)

Question 16

How do the townsfolk feel about the Radley family?

Answer 16

Scared (Ch. 1)

Question 17

How do the townsfolk feel about Mr. Radley in particular?

Answer 17

They think he’s stuck up, snooty, uptight. “… was so upright, he took the word of God as his only law.” (Ch. 1)

Question 18

How does Jem describe Boo Radley?

Answer 18

-6 1/2 ft
-bloodstained hand (from eating raw squirrels)
-drooled
-caught animals (squirrels, cats) and ate them raw
-popped eyes
-long jagged scar
-rotten teeth
SOunds like a ZOMBIE! (Ch. 1)

Question 19

On what dramatic note does the chapter end? And then what happens?

Answer 19

Jem touches the house on a dare from Dill; the blinds rustle… (Ch. 1)

Question 20

Who is Miss Caroline Fisher?

Answer 20

Scout’s Teacher (Ch. 2)

Question 21

What is irrational about the teaching methods of Scout’s teacher?

Answer 21

She doesn’t want Scout to learn at home. (Ch. 2)

Question 22

How did Scout learn to read and write?

Answer 22

Scout thinks she always knew how, but she learned by looking over her father’s shoulder while his hands moved across the words. (Ch. 2)

Question 23

Who are the Cunninghams?

Answer 23

They are a proud farming family, so poor, but so proud they won’t take anything they can’t pay back (Ch. 2)

Question 24

When Scout asks her father if they are as poor as the Cunninghams, how does he respond?

Answer 24

Not Exactly (No) (Ch. 2)

Question 25

Through Atticus, what does the reader learn about the great depression and how it affected different classes of people in different ways?

Answer 25

Everyone is poor because those with real jobs cannot be payed because everyone else is a poor farmer. (Ch. 2)

Question 26

Why does Miss Caroline punish Scout?

Answer 26

She thinks Scout is being smart with her and making her feel dumb. (Ch. 2)