Transcript File - Mr. Offerman`s Class

To Kill a Mockingbird: Quiz
Chapters – Get out a sheet of paper!!!
Chapter 6 – Dill’s last night in
Maybcomb
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1. What did Mr. Avery do in the street?
2. What was Jem and Dill’s plan for the night?
3. How did they get the gate not to squeak?
4. What did Dill see in the window?
5. What scared Dill, Jem and Scout out of the Radley yard?
6. What did Jem lose while running away?
7. Why were the neighbors gathered around the Radley house?
8. Why did Mr. Nathan fire his shotgun?
9. How did Dill cover for Jem when Atticus asked about his pants?
10. Why did Dill kiss Scout before he left?
11. Why did Jem have trouble sleeping?
12. Why did Jem sneak out of the house?
13. Why didn’t Scout want him to leave?
14. What did Jem have when he returned?
Chapter 7
 1. What did Scout do to try and understand why Jem was upset
about retrieving his pants from the Radley yard?
 2. What happened the night they ran from the Radley’s that Jem
didn’t tell Scout?
 3. Describe the treasures that kept reappearing in the Radley
yard. Make a prediction about these artifacts.
 4. Why was Jem upset at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 8
 1. When it snowed in Maycomb for the first time since 1885,
Why were Jem and Scout so interested in making a
snowman?
 2. How did Jem and Scout feel about their unknowing
encounter with Boo Radley on the night of the fire?
 3. How has Jem and Scout’s relationship been developed in
this chapter?
Chapter 9
 1. At school, Scout finds out that Atticus will be defending a
“negro.” How does Atticus defend his decision to do his job
and offer legal council? How does this define Atticus’
character?
 2. How does Scout typically deal with people who insult her
family? How would Atticus like her to deal with it?
 3. What does Uncle Jack come to realize at the end of the
chapter? How does he come about this realization?
Chapter 10
 1. chapter 10, Atticus mentions that “…it is a sin to kill a
mockingbird.” Discuss how this quote might relate the rest of
the novel.
 2. How do Jem and Scout feel about their father? What
Surprises them towards the end of the chapter?
 3. What does the scenario with Tim Johnson tell us about
Maycomb?
Chapter 11
 1. Describe Mrs. Dubose.
 2. Why did Mrs. Dubose decide that having Jem read to her
was the best form of punishment?
 3. What is it about Mrs. Dubose that confuses Jem and Scout
so much?
Chapter 12
 1. What changes about Jem in this chapter? How does Scout
deal with it?
 2. Describe Jem and Scout’s visit to Calpurnia’s church. What
did they find strange or different?
 3. What do we find out about Tom Robinson?
Chapter 13
 1. Describe Scout and Jem’s Aunt, Mrs. Alexandra.
 2. What is Aunt Alexandra’s expectation of Jem and Scout?
Why does she expect this from them?
 3. How do Jem, Scout and Atticus feel about this
expectation? Provide examples.
Chapter 14
 1. How does Aunt Alexandra feel about Calpurnia? What
does she want Atticus to do?
 2. What caused Jem and Scout to get into an argument?
 3. Do you believe Dill’s explanation for how he escaped
Meridian? Why or why not? How does Dill feel about his
parents?
Chapter 15
 1. Who were the men outside of the Finch house? What did
they want?
 2. What seems to be causing a stir in Maycomb?
 3. Describe the incident at the jailhouse at the end of the
chapter.
Chapter 16
 1. How does Atticus explain Mr. Cunningham’s actions?
 2. How has the trial transformed Maycomb?
 3. Describe Judge Taylor.