To Kill A Mockingbird Chapters 1 - 6

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Aims

You can recount what happens in the first 6 chapters of TKAMB

You can analyse characters and setting

You can explain important quotations and link them to the story as a whole

Where does the story take place?

1. Memphis, Tennessee
2. Monroeville, Alabama
3. Burmingham, Alabama
4. Maycomb, Alabama

What's Scout's real name?

1. Boo
2. Alexandra
3. Jean Louise
4. Mayella

Where is Scout and Jem's mother?

1. She died when Scout was two and Jem was six.
2. She ran off with another man when Scout was two and Jem was six.
3. She is recovering from an illness in Europe.
4. She was killed in a fire a year before the novel starts.

What is Boo Radley, the isolated man, rumored to have done?

1. Bullied a girl
2. Burnt down Miss Maudie's house
3. Stabbed his father with a pair of scissors
4. Killed a mockingbird with his bare hands

Who is Dill?

1. A boy staying next door for the summer whom Scout and Jem befriend
2. The owner of the town newspaper
3. One of the Ewell kids
4. Huck Finn's younger brother

Why does the teacher get mad at Scout on the first day of school?

1. Because she's late
2. Because she's passing notes in class
3. Because she knows how to read
4. Because Scout calls her names

Why won't Walter Cunningham borrow a quarter from Miss Caroline for lunch?

1. Because his family is poor and won't be able to pay it back
2. Because he doesn't like Miss Fisher
3. Because he's offended by the offer
4. Because he's not hungry

What does Walter do at lunch at the Finches that shocks Scout?

1. He picks his nose
2. He pours maple syrup all over his plate of meat and vegetables.
3. He's rude to Calpurnia
4. He refuses to say grace

What happens to Burris Ewell?

1. Cecil Jacobs beats him up.
2. A bug crawls out of his hair
3. Scout lies about him to Miss Caroline
4. He gets kicked out of school

When do the Ewell kids go to school?

1. Only when the weather is warm and they don't have to wear shoes
2. Only for first and second grade
3. Only when their father is out of town
4. Only on the first day of every school year

Where do Scout and Jem start finding gifts left for them?

1. On Scout's windowsill
2. In the knot of a tree outside the Radley house
3. In Miss Maudie's garden
4. On the Radley's back porch

Why does Scout start hanging out with Miss Maudie?

1. Because Jem and Dill have made her feel unwelcome in their games
2. As a punishment for destroying her flowers
3. Because she dislikes Dill
4. Because Miss Maudie needs her help with the garden

How does Miss Maudie account for Boo's strangeness?

1. He was a bad seed from the start
2. He is mentally unstable
3. He has a very strict baptist father
4. He suffered from polio when he was 7

What happens when Scout, Jem, and Dill sneak into the Radleys backyard?

1. Boo invites them in
2. A dog chases them
3. Nathan comes out and has a stern talk with them
4. Someone shoots a shotgun at them

How does Dill explain Jem's missing pants?

1. First he says strip poker and then lighting matches.
2. He admits what really happened
3. He says they floated down the river when they went for a swim.
4. He says they got ripped up when they were climbing trees.

What is your current analysis of Scout? Use adjectives!

What can you say about the socio-economical class of: The Finches, The Cunninghams and The Ewells?

Important quotes

“‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—’

‘Sir?’

‘—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’”

What's your impression so far of Maycomb as a town and how people act there?