To Kill a Mockingbird Worksheet
Chapters 1-10
Chatper 1
1. What event does Scout relate as she begins her narrative?
2. If this even happened years before, what do you know about Scout as a narrator?
3. What is Finch’s Landing and who lives there now?
4. What do you learn about the Finch family from Scout by page 5?
5. Describe Maycomb.
6. Who is Calpurnia?
7. Where is their mother?
8. Who is Dill and what movie did he see that impressed Jem?
9. What is peculiar about the Radleys?
10. Why would their house have no screen doors?
11. What did Boo Radley and his friends do to the town cop?
12. Why do you think Boo Radley stabbed his father?
13. What is Dill’s plan at the end of this chapter?
15. What do they see at the very end of Chapter 1?
Chapter 2
16. Why don’t the students like the story about cats that Miss Fisher read them?
17. Why is Miss Fisher mad that Scout can read?
18. Why can’t Walter Cunningham take the nickel from Miss Fisher?
Chapter 3
19. Who do they take home for lunch with them?
20. What did the guest do that prompted Scout to act inappropriately?
21. Why did Calpurnia get so angry at Scout for acting that way?
22. What scares the teacher after lunch?
23. How does Scout know about the Cunningham’s?
24. Why doesn’t Burris Ewell have to go to school more than one day?
25. What does Atticus tell Scout to do when she complains about Miss Fisher?
Chapter 4
26. Where does Scout find the chewing gum?
27. What do they find next?
28. On the bottom of page 35, Jem is staring at the Radley place and thinking. Why is he doing that?
29. What is a “hot steam”?
30. After the ride in the tire, where does Scout end up?
31. What is the new game Scout, Dill, and Jem begin to play?
32. What are the 2 reasons Scout wants to quit the game?
Chapter 5
33. Who is the person with whom Scout spends her time when Dill and Jem ignore her?
34. Why does that person “hate her house”?
35. What is a “foot washing Baptist”?
36. Why does Miss Maudie think Boo stays in the house? What did his family do to him that made him so?
37. What does she mean by “Atticus Finch is the same in the house as he is on the public streets”?
38. How do Dill and Jem plan to contact Boo Radley?
Chapter 6
39. Why did Jem lose his pants?
40. How does Dill cover for Jem?
41. How does Jem get them back?
Chapter 7
42. How does Scout decide that she’s going to get Jem to tell her what happened the night he got his pants back?
43. What happened to Jem when he went to get his pants back? How were the pants sewed?
44. Besides the twine, what do they find in the knothole?
45. What happened to the knothole? Why do you think he did that?
46. Why do you think Jem was crying at the end of this day?
Chapter 8
47. Why is there no school on this day?
48. How do they make their snowman?
49. What is a “morphodite”?
50. When the children are awakened, what is going on?
51. What do the children find on their shoulders, and who put it there?
52. What does this make Jem realize about Boo?
Chapter 9
53. Who is the Negro Atticus is going to be defending?
54. Does Atticus think he’ll win the case?
55. Then why did he take it?
56. How does Atticus explain about why Scout cusses?
57. Name the people besides Atticus, Jem, and Scout at Finch’s Landing.
58. Why does Scout get so mad at Uncle Jack?
59. What is Atticus’s advice to Jack when Jack says he lied to Jem when she asked him a question?
60. Why did Atticus say all he did to Jack if he knew Scout was listening?
61. Why is Jem mad at Atticus at the beginning of this chapter?
62. The title of the novel is explained here. What does this chapter say about Mockingbirds?
63. What upsets Calpurnia so much?
64. What does Atticus do?
65. What did used to call Atticus?