TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD STUDY GUIDE AND QUOTE HUNT
CHAPTERS 12-31
DIRECTIONS: Answer each question and its parts completely and fully. This is to help you prepare for your test over the second part of the novel.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- What does it mean in Maycomb when grown men stand outside in the front yard instead of coming into the house?
- Which side does Aunt Alexandra take concerning the trial?
- What is Atticus worried about when he sits in front of the jail?
- How does Scout break up the mob that night? Why does this work?
- What does this chapter show about the relationship between Scout and her father?
- Which side does the sheriff Heck Tate take concerning the trial?The publisher Mr. Underwood?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- What does Atticus say about a mob?
- Is Miss Maudie the kind of woman who would go to a trial just out of curiosity? Is Miss Stephanie?
- What is peculiar about Mr. Dolphus Raymond?
- What happens to Scout and Jem as a result of the crowding in the courthouse?
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- In a few words, summarize Heck Tate’s testimony.
- What is Mr. Ewell’s testimony?
- What is Atticus trying to show?
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- What impression does Atticus bring out from Mayella Ewell’s testimony about their home and family life?
- Summarize Mayella’s testimony.
- What is peculiar about Tom that would lead one to believe that he could not have grabbed the girl and beaten and raped her?
- Why does Mayella object to Atticus’s calling her “ma’am” and “Miss Mayella”?
CHAPTER NINTEEN
- Was Tom Robinson well acquainted with Mayella Ewell?
- Did she pay him? Did he accept?
- What is the serious mistake that Tom makes in his testimony?
- What is it that makes Dill feel sick?
CHAPTER TWENTY
- Whom do the children meet outside the courtroom after Dill feels sick?
- Why does Mr. Raymond drink Coke from a paper bag?
- Why does he want people to think he is a drunk?
- In his speech to the jury, Atticus says he feels pity for the chief witness. Who is the chief witness?
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
- Why does Calpurnia come into the courtroom?
- How does Scout know as soon as she sees the jury coming that it has convicted Tom?
- Why do all the Negroes stand up as Atticus leaves the courtroom?
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
- Why does Jem cry as the children leave the courthouse?
- Why does Dill say he’s going to be a clown when he grows up?
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
- What happens that worries the children very much?
- Does Atticus believe in the jury system? In capital punishment?
- Which man on the jury took longest to be convinced that Tom was guilty?
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
- Why does Scout attend her aunt’s meetings and teas?
- What news is received about Tom Robinson?
- Why was he trying to escape?
- What does Scout learn about being a lady?
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
- Who goes with Atticus and Calpurnia when they go to tell Helen Robinson of her husband’s death?
- Why can Mr. Underwood say whatever he wants to in his newspaper?
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
- What grades are the children in now? How much time has passed since the beginning of the novel?
- What does Scout believe about Boo Radley?
- What confuses Scout about what her teacher says about not persecuting anybody?
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
- Why is Bob Ewell still causing trouble for everybody connected with the case?
- What is to be different about Halloween this year in Maycomb?
- What is Scout’s part in the Halloween pageant?
- What is her costume made out of?
- What does Scout mean when she says: “Thus began our longest journey together”?
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
- What first fright do Scout and Jem receive when they are on their way to the school?
- Why does Scout have to wear her ham costume home?
- What happens in the dark?
- Who attacks the children?
- What happens to the attacker?
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
- What saves Scout from being stabbed?
- Who is the man in the corner who has saved the children and stabbed Bob Ewell?
CHAPTER THIRTY
- Who does Atticus think stabbed Ewell?
- Who does Sheriff Tate think killed Ewell? Why?
- Why do the two men, Tate and Atticus, tacitly agree to say that the stabbing had been accidental, with Ewell “falling” on the knife?
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD QUOTE HUNT: CHAPTERS 12-31
DIRECTIONS:For each quote you will need to find the place in the text where it is spoken and finish the citation, identify the speaker, and answer the question about the quotation.
- “Link, that boy might go to the chair, but he’s not going till the truth’s told…And you know what the truth is” (Lee 146).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) What is of the utmost importance to the speaker and why?
- “I knowed who it was, all right, lived down yonder in that nigger-nest, passed the house everyday. I’ve asked for this county for 15 years to clean out that nest down yonder; they’re dangerous to live around ‘sides devaluing my property” (Lee 175).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) How does the speaker’s testimony display his prejudice?
- “I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you” (Lee 180).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) How does the speaker think of/treat Tom Robinson?
- “Well, Mr. Finch didn’t act that way towards Mayella and old man Ewell when he cross-examined them. The way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time and sneered at him, and looked around at the jury everytime he answered--“ (Lee 199).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) Why is the speaker upset?
- “You little folks won’t tell on me now will you? It’d ruin my reputation if you did” (Lee 200).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) Why would the speaker not want the truth to be known?
- “Some folks don’t like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with them. I don’t care if they don’t like it, right enough—but I don’t say the hell with ‘em, see?” (Lee 200).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) What is the speaker trying to explain to the children?
- “Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal” (Lee 205).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) Why does the speaker remind the jury of this?
- “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep” (Lee 213).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) According to the speaker, why does prejudice exist?
- “It’s like being a caterpillar in a cocoon, that’s what it is. Like something asleep wrapped in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that’s what they seemed like”
(Lee 215).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) Why does the speaker compare himself to a caterpillar in a cocoon?
- “…there is no doubt in my mind that they’re good folks. But they’re not our kind of folks…Besides, there’s a drinking streak in that family a mile wide” (Lee 224).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) What kind of attitude does the speaker display towards the Cunninghams?
- “Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks” (Lee 227).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) Why is the speaker’s belief so simplistic and true?
- “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s staying shut up in the house all the time…it’s because he wants to stay inside” (Lee 227).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) How does the speaker’s view of Boo Radley express his own thoughts?
- “To my way of thinkin’, Mr. Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight – to me, that’s a sin. It’s a sin and I’m not about to have it on my head. If it was any other man it’d be different. But not this man, Mr. Finch” (Lee 276).
(a) Who is speaking?:
(b) What lesson does Atticus learn from the speaker?